Tamara Bartholomew The Serious Science on the CSIRO Southern Surveyor day 2 At 1100 we had a science meeting in which we discussed eddies the priority stations for this expedition are four stations off the coast of Maria Island, Tasmania. The reason for this is there are permanent environmental detectors that need to be calibrated. We are traveling slowly to make it to Maria on time due to a southern swell and short waves. As a result we are unable to complete our afternoon station sampling for today. Instead we had a look at the zooplankton from a late night net tow. This proved to be difficult as the boat movement made it difficult to see the little critters some of which were clearly very colourful. There appeared to be a variety of copepods and molluscs dominating the sample with some polychaetes also present. With the conditions becoming more turbulent it became too difficult to see or identify what was under the microscope. We decided to abandon our attempts in hope of calmer weather tomorrow We hope to be back on track tomorrow morning, ocean and ship speeding permitting.