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Copepod

January 27, 2019 (Note: this is #24 in a series of posts describing my NSF-sponsored fieldwork in Antarctica aboard the Laurence M. Gould) Today was a good day. I collected samples of copepods (Calanus propinquus) that I’ve been incubating in the lab for five days. I’m trying to understand how different species of copepods, feed,…

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Sea butterflies

Petropods

January 25, 2019 (Note: this is #23 in a series of posts describing my NSF-sponsored fieldwork in Antarctica aboard the Laurence M. Gould). The featured image by Patricia Thibodeau shows a bunch of pteropods…look to see the beautifully extended wings on a few in the lower corner. While I’ve been developing increasing copepod-centric tunnel vision,…

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