Cara Murphy
Western WA Univ.
Worked on the design and development of a new Oracle database for storage of light intensity data.

Cara Murphy, Western Washington University student, participated in an AFSC paid internship during summer 2006. Cara worked with Stan Kotwicki, a scientist with the Eastern Bering Sea Groundfish Assessment Team, on the design and development of a new Oracle database for storage of light intensity data collected during RACE groundfish surveys. Her work was very successful and the database is in final stages of development.

Cara also created 3-dimensional (3D) maps of light intensity data from EBS trawl surveys using ArcScene ArcGIS software for presenting 3D data. She will continue to cooperate with the AFSC during her senior year in college. She will use light intensity data to describe the relationship between satellite data (chlorophyll a, primary productivity, diffuse attenuation coefficient) and ?in situ? observations of light levels in the Bering Sea. We wish her best of luck in her future endeavors.