Rich Viso, assistant director of the School of Coastal and Marine Systems Science, Rick Peterson, marine science lecturer, and graduate student Leigha Peterson (no relation) leave Myrtle Beach on Dec. 7 and travel through Atlanta and Santiago, Chile, to the tip of South America, crossing the treacherous 500-mile Drake Passage. They board the R/V Gould (research vessel) for a National Science Foundation-funded research trip involving groundwater discharge.
Links:
ECU SSTORM Research Group Blog - http://ecusstorm.blogspot.com/2012_12_01_archive.html
Eastern Carolina Univeristy article - http://www.ecu.edu/cs-cas/articles/antarctica.cfm