gathered around a table sat sobal meteorologist , morsinth engineer , borsnook engineerson , samkin tailor , nynat marinebiologist , and sandeep cooksmate , the members of tobin 's team , each of them seekers in their own right , who regularly gathered to discuss the seemingly insignificant peculiarities in weather conditions which , when properly analyzed , wove a detailed tapestry depicting a single event : the most likely location of the next random shift in a small pocket of the planet 's phase resonance .