My name is Amy Burgess.
I am a PhD student at the University
of Oregon.
I'm studying marine biology so I am
stationed out here at the
 Oregon Institute of Marine Biology in Charleston.
We're standing next to you our largest
research vessel that we have at the lab.
It's the R/V Pluteus.  We take this boat out
to bring undergrad from the main campus out to this 
campus to do a lot of field intensive classes.  So we're often on
the boat doing course work.  But then a
lot of us graduate students use this
boat for our research.  So something that's different about this boat would be the
open space on back.  This enabled us to do
trawls if we’re looking at bottom things, we can put on plankton nets 
if we’re looking at things in the water column, 
or we have a remotely operated vehicle.  So it's bassic
underwater robot that we can't stick on
the ship and then
toss in the water.  Lots of different
things that we can do.  It just depends on
what questions were asking.
