High Tide - Back River

 

Taisy to me at 80!

 

Lunch at Michael's, Brooklyn

Nostrand Ave. and Gerritsen Ave, where 

my father grew up, near my Mom's childhood home.

Marilyn, thank you for gathering us all here today. As is fitting, because it is in fact you who almost exclusively brings us together, always over excellent food and drink. My father adores you and admires you. I speak for all of us when I say, so do we. We are ever so grateful for you.

 

Looking sharp as usual today, Professor. You single-handedly kept the dry cleaner in business during shelter in place. 

 

Well, we are obligated to begin with your squadron of boats, Captain. You made being on the water one of the hallmarks of our family, an upbringing few city kids have. Through you I have come to yearn for the sound of wind and water, just the sails flapping as we adjust for the change in wind. When the grandkids want to motor to Port Clyde, we casually suggest getting an ice cream cone, as if we haven’t been biding our time. You teach anyone interested how to tie up at the dock, though I think I’m your most reliable first mate. Actually probably Ulysses is better by now. Jesse overcomplicates it. And it wouldn’t be a trip to the general store without you getting into an argument with one of Linda Bean’s minions enforcing her ridiculous fe es (RIP?).

 

Sometimes our boat trips were a bit more, err, adventurous. There was that time we ran aground. Oh, was that not specific enough? (There were many times). Then the time you convinced Marilyn to go for a ride in a powerboat rented from Jeff’s Marine in Maine. This was just a few years into your marriage so she still thought she needed to impress you. We anchored off of the idyllic Cranberry Island for lunch, only to not be able to start the engine after. Now it dawned on us that this quiet cove was, in fact, quite desolate. There were no cell phones then, though even if there were, there wouldn’t have been cell service. We must have not even had a radio. Like going on a quick kayak route that Jesse recommended only to find yourself paddling into three foot waves four hours later, finding yourself stranded in the ocean is moderately terrifying. 

 

Marilyn, our intrepid problem solver, waded through the water to shore and set off hiking into the woods to find help. The sun started to go down and fog descended. Our two Poland Spring water bottles ran out. Still, we waited. Ten year old Taisy wondered, would we go without dinner and spend the cold dark night on the boat, without even a blanket? Finally, the Patty C. (Sea?) lobster boat motored around the bend with Marilyn waving from the bow. We rode back on the vessel to Friendship.  I am fortunate I never had to overcome the shock of realizing a parent was not, in fact, infallible. Dad, you also modeled how to make mistakes and turn it into a good story to laugh over. I think you actually loved every moment of it. You also made sure to bring a radio on every subsequent boat ride.

 

Your grandson Cassius has picked up a love for the water through fishing. After all, he had caught snapper, one after another, like they were waiting for him, on City Island in September of 2024. He insisted on frying them up for dinner. This fall, when the afternoon breeze never showed, Cassius was confident he would catch our supper. You showed him step by step how to use the fishing rod, though he insisted he still remembered. Nothing bit. We waited for the tide to come in. Still no snapper. The line became horribly tangled. And so there was no wind and no fish, and the sun was beating down. I was secretly pleased. Cassius learned a valuable lesson in patience and chance that day. You can come prepared and at the right time, and nature still may not comply; and you can’t always blame that on mom and dad. No fish were had that night. 

You grieved with me, not just for me, when we struggled with infertility. I felt seen in how deeply you wanted another child for me. Now that we have Azalea, I soak in your delight in her because you know just what she means to me. I wonder if it’s extra sweet to see your daughter have a daughter. 

I was and am proud of your life’s work. While you raised me, you were also standing up for worker safety. You were writing your case to make pharmaceutical products safer . Later, you transitioned beautifully to teaching an entire generation of attorneys. You advanced tort law in China through your translations and teaching. We walked the Great Wall together. 

You center a narrative that the law can and should advance justice. It is a dark time for the legal field in this flawed nation of ours, but I know your former students are out there waiting to fight fascism and sow the seeds of repair.  You modeled for me the values of justice and equity that I now apply in my own work. I can only hope to one day build an intellectual and practical legacy as strong as yours.

Most spend our lives searching for something we are skilled at and love as much as you love wooden boats. You always knew how to live. It’s been a joy to watch you embrace what you love, and get to share it with - us, your students, neighbors, the doorman, I could go on! Your work is a core part of your identity. I know that a future without teaching may be dull. Once, you saw studying for the Bar Exam not as a hardship but rather as a chance for a Southern California vacation, at your parents’. I am hopeful you can channel that same attitude in your well earned retirement. You have made so much meaning in your life - your career, being a patriarch of this family, and as a dedicated friend and husband. I can envision a new rhythm filled with the things you like to do and the people you like to be with. I’m proud of you and I love you.

 

 

Full Moon - Friendship, Maine

 99% ! Rise 4:16 PM

 

Have harp seals blocked cod stock recovery?

https://theconversation.com/are-harp-seals-responsible-for-the-stalled-recovery-of-atlantic-cod-269337?utm_medium=article_native_share&utm_source=theconversation.com

Upstream pathways of the Faroe Overflow

If you want to understand climate change you need to follow the waters .. especially the currents of the far north where Greenland. Iceland. and the Faroe Islands are big players 

Dallas Murphy has been there.  This year on a Woods Hole research vessel.

Pickart Lab

Upstream Pathways of the Faroe Overflow (UFO)

2025 Journal Entries from the Field

By Dallas Murphy  

CONTENTS

1. A BEGINNING

2. SOMEWHERE OUT THERE

3. SHIPS IN PURSUIT OF WATER

4. THE PIONEERS. PART ONE.

5. WEATHER

6. THE PIONEERS.  PART TWO.

7. LIFE ABOARD

8. A GAMBLE, ALWAYS A GAMBLE

9. IN HARM'S WAY

10. DISCOVERING WATER

11. WHY

The overflow of dense water across the Greenland-Scotland Ridge, and its subsequent entrainment, is a fundamental component of the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC) which helps maintain Earth’s climate. It is critically important to determine the mechanisms, forcing, and variability of the AMOC. The project entitled “Upstream Pathways of the Faroe Overflow” (UFO) is multi-institutional, interdisciplinary effort to study the origin and pathways of the dense water that feeds the Faroe Bank Channel overflow. This overflow is the densest component of the AMOC and accounts for a significant portion of the composite overflow across the Greenland-Scotland Ridge. The UFO program includes a mooring array, gliders, hydrographic surveys, and modeling. Together, this will help determine where the densest water is formed in the Nordic Seas, how this water progresses to the Greenland-Scotland Ridge, and how it is modified along the way including the role of atmospheric forcing. This in turn will provide a better understanding of the means by which the warming climate may impact the AMOC.

Oh No- The Big 80!

at Michael's of Brooklyn

The Manhatttan II

Michael's of Brooklyn

Nostrand Ave and R Street

Just a block from Coyle Street where

we lived when I was born in November 1945

 

Rutgers Marine Station faces rising tides

 https://coastalhub.org/2025/08/22/marine-field-station-the-retreat/

Marine Field Station: The Retreat

 August 22,  2025

MACH is proud to announce the completion of our first documentary, Marine Field Station: The Retreat, directed and produced by Thomas Lennon—Academy Award-winning filmmaker, MACH senior personnel member, and head of the Documentary Film Lab at Rutgers University’s Mason Gross School of the Arts.

Marine Field Station: The Retreat is a MACH-supported film that serves the purpose of capturing perspectives on climate change and sharing climate information with a broader audience while simultaneously providing training to the next generation. The film’s production crew was predominantly made up of Rutgers film students who, guided by Lennon, had the opportunity to hone their skills in science-based documentary storytelling while capturing regionally-critical climate adaptation interactions between researchers, stakeholders, and community members.

The documentary features the Rutgers Marine Field Station (RUMFS), a preeminent research facility of  Rutgers  New Jersey Agricultural Research & Education Station (NJAES). RUMFS functions as a central hub for marine and coastal research and also houses the MACH administrative team. 

Click the video link below to watch the film and discover a powerful story of Rutgers’ own resilience and adaptation.

Please follow this link to share your thoughts about the documentary film. This survey should only take a couple of minutes unless you choose to also provide a written review of the film. Thank you.

Two women row 6,900 miles across the Pacific!

 https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6775109/2025/11/06/british-rowers-pacific-ocean-jess-rowe-miriam-payne/?source=athletic_user_shared_article_copylink&smid=url-share-ta

Jess Rowe and Miriam Payne

Looking pretty damn good after 165 days at sea.

Six fundamental exercises

 https://www.nytimes.com/2024/08/28/well/move/range-of-motion-exercises.html?smid=url-share

exercise alzheimer risk

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In older adults (mean age 72) with elevated Aβ amyloid, 5,000-7,500 steps/day (&lt;-a plateau) were associated with less Tau accumulation, improved cognition

@naturemedicine.bsky.social 

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GOAT - Ohtani Pitched six innings, struck out 10, hit three home runs in his four at bats

 In the 150 years that baseball has been played NO ONE hss done what Shohei Ohtani of the LA Dodgers just did.

Pitched six innings, struck out 10, hit three home runs in his four at bats.

https://x.com/i/status/1979523615436460231

 

RING park ready for Halloween

NR2 hauled ahead of Nor'easter

 NOAA predicts a strong Nor'easter will form, with fifty mph winds and huge seas offshore.  So despite a spare sailing season for me [crocodile tears ...we were in Maine for five weeks] my sister Nancy and I sailed North River 2 around to the east side of City Island where it was ahauled at Barron's boat yard.  The last all sail yard in the Bronx - where America;s Cup contenders once reigned and wer built - like commodore Vanderbilt's Vim, and Ted Turner's Courageous.

 

Vim built by 

Henry B. Nevins, City Island, NY

Courageous - the last City Island, NY built 12 metre

Captain - Ted Turner

22 on the line! Hudson River Race

 Just north of the GWC Bridge 22 J-24s and J-80s gather for the start in light air.

9/11/2025