A bit of a frustrating day today, although perfect conditions outside. We have not had much organizational structure yet and this showed today. There was some planning, where we organized teams of volunteers to work on different tasks such as putting out power cable. But these teams did agreat job of completing their work and there was nothing else staged or ready for them to do….. so a bunch of people, ready and willing to work at a crucial time for the project, instead went into the ship to drink coffee for hours. This did not sit well with me and my “happiness factor” was not very high as a result (I’ve been asking the ATMOS team to rate their happiness factor…. 1 to 10, to get a reading on how people are doing in general). I guess these are the growing pains of MOSAiC; figuring out how to organize such a large and diverse group of people with so much equipment crammed into every nook and cranny on the vessel. We will carry on of course, and get better about structuring our work.
