My girlfriend has gone on a research trip recently! Normally I wouldn't start my blog posts out that way, however, it's relevant. Her research vessel actually has some data available, publicly, here: http://webcam.oregonstate.edu/tracker/.

There's some cool data there:

Temperatures

Depth

Wind

Latitude

Longitude

I initially thought this was going to be an endeavor in web parsing, but then I looked at the source of the website. I eventually came across this nifty javascript function they are using: