Archive for January 18, 2019

January 17 2019 (Note: this is #16 in a series of posts describing my NSF-sponsored fieldwork in Antarctica aboard the Laurence M. Gould). Can you see the little copepod near my fingertips on the spoon? That’s Calanus propinquus. I guess I shouldn’t play favorites with my “subjects,” but, between us, It’s kind of my favorite. If…

January 16 2019 (Note: this is #15 in a series of posts describing my NSF-sponsored fieldwork in Antarctica aboard the Laurence M. Gould). Yesterday was relatively uneventful for me. We had some technical difficulties, so there wasn’t much sampling and sorting going on. Instead, I had time for my shipboard “hobbies”: tending to my experiment,…