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My name is Lucy Bellwood and I am the artist-at-sea aboard R/V Falkor’s Johnston Atoll transit-cruise. I am a professional adventure cartoonist, tasked with having unusual, exciting experiences and bringing back comics that allow my readers to learn about them.</p> <p><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20170427102842/http://blogs.agu.org/thefield/2017/01/06/drawing-life-sea/" class="more">Read More <span class="more-arrow">>></span></a></p> <br class="clearfloat"/> </div> <div class="post entry" id="post-81331"> <p class="date"> </p> <h3 class="posttitle"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20170427102842/http://blogs.agu.org/thefield/2017/01/06/a-lifetime-underwater/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link to A Lifetime Underwater"> A Lifetime Underwater </a></h3> <p>Long gone are the days when she would come back home from mapping expeditions carrying two 100-megabyte tapes and a thick roll of maps. That is, thirty days of ocean floor mapping producing no more than 200 megabytes of information. Today 16 beams on the sonar have become 450, which translates into 92 megabytes per hour. </p> <p><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20170427102842/http://blogs.agu.org/thefield/2017/01/06/a-lifetime-underwater/" class="more">Read More <span class="more-arrow">>></span></a></p> <br class="clearfloat"/> </div> <div class="post entry" id="post-81323"> <p class="date"> </p> <h3 class="posttitle"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20170427102842/http://blogs.agu.org/thefield/2017/01/06/preparing-mapping-marine-national-monument/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link to Preparing for Mapping the Marine National Monument"> Preparing for Mapping the Marine National Monument </a></h3> <p>“When it comes to biology, we really have no idea what is down there,” explains Dr. Joyce Miller, multibeam mapping scientist. “We need to map the area first in order to know where to look in future exploration.” </p> <p><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20170427102842/http://blogs.agu.org/thefield/2017/01/06/preparing-mapping-marine-national-monument/" class="more">Read More <span class="more-arrow">>></span></a></p> <br class="clearfloat"/> </div> <div class="post entry" id="post-81286"> <p class="date"> 4 January 2017 </p> <h3 class="posttitle"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20170427102842/http://blogs.agu.org/thefield/2017/01/04/a-student-at-sea/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link to A Student at Sea"> A Student at Sea </a></h3> <p>It has been hard containing my excitement since I first found out I would be a participant this past July. 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