Archive for January 26, 2019
Krill on alert
January 23, 2019 (Note: this is #22 in a series of posts describing my NSF-sponsored fieldwork in Antarctica aboard the Laurence M. Gould). The photo above of Debbie Steinberg deploying a plankton net was taken by Patricia Thibodeau. We’re working away like busy little bees here on the ship, trusting that our day-to-day efforts will…
Read MoreThe “yellow brick road”
January 22, 2019 (Note: this is #21 in a series of posts describing my NSF-sponsored fieldwork in Antarctica aboard the Laurence M. Gould) At lunch today, my colleague Kim Thamatrakoln asked me if I have been able to collect all the samples I hoped to get. I’m not sure if I audibly sighed, but I certainly sighed…
Read MoreThe slope
January 21 2019 (Note: this is #20 in a series of posts describing my NSF-sponsored fieldwork in Antarctica aboard the Laurence M. Gould). Today I woke up as we sampled one of our offshore stations (offshore from the continental shelf, in the deeper waters of the slope). Then we steamed about five hours toward the…
Read MoreThe ”other” grind
January 20 2019 (Note: this is #19 in a series of posts describing my NSF-sponsored fieldwork in Antarctica aboard the Laurence M. Gould). Three days ago I posted about the “grind” of processing samples day after day. Today we moved back into the ice, and experiences the “grinding” of the ship as it moved through the sea…
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