Cruise Report W-37 : scientific activities undertaken aboard R/V Westward, San Juan - Miami, November 30, 1977- January 11, 1978

San Juan, PR - Miami, FL; November 30, 1977 - January 11, 1978The educational program offered as the W-37 component of Introduction to Marine Science (NS 225 at Boston University) consisted of a formal classroom learning experience (31 lectures or seminars were presented), structured laboratory study, and participation in individual research projects. Viewed as an integrated whole, W-37 was divided into several different areas of concentration: there were short-term projects occupying the ship's company to the exclusion of most other concerns for up to a few days and longer ones involving continuous data collection and analysis for the entire 6 weeks of the voyage or major portions thereof