Students a primary part of $6.74 million experiment

They were treated as equals, not underlings. From assisting in the assembly of 40-foot-long buoys that collect critical information on near-shore wind and wave conditions to attaching special instrumentation on the high-tech devices that allowed them to do their job, graduate and undergraduate students from the Rosenstiel School of Marine, Atmospheric, and Earth Science have played important roles in an Office of Naval study that will improve forecasting of land, air, and sea interactions. In their own words, the students each give a summary of what they did as part of the $6.74 million Coastal Land-Air-Sea Interaction Experiment (CLASI). Matt Birtman I am an undergraduate at the University of Miami, double majoring in environmental engineering and marine science. I participated in the retrieval cruise of the CLASI project during the October 2022 expedition. During this cruise, I was a member of the onboard science team that retrieved the air-sea interaction spar (ASIS) buoys along the coast of California. I assisted in the actual buoy retrieval, controlling different mechanisms, such as frames for securing the buoys while in the water as well as securing them once they were brought back on deck.