Author Archives: Whitney King

Hello and Goodbye from Africa

It is tuesday, February 22nd, and I am sitting in the Cape Town airport getting ready for my twenty-hour flight back to Boston.   It is hard to believe that a week ago the Melville was steaming at five knots, sixty … Continue reading

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Final Questions from the Epiphany School

Howdy!  Here’s some more questions from the kids. – Katie 1. Have you found any animals/organisms or results that were surprising? No real surprises, but lots of great data was collected on the cruise.   One of the the major … Continue reading

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Three Cats and a Kitten

My daughter is the real engineer in the family, but she has often commented that I could have easily been an engineer in another life.  She is probably right, I love all things mechanical and I have spent the last … Continue reading

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