Archive for August 2023

This is the second of three (or more?) posts about our field campaign in the Gulf of Maine during Spring/Summer 2023. By the beginning of June, we had completed our first of three cruises and were feeling pretty good. The goals was to collect samples from the nearby Gulf of Maine that would allow us…

This is the first of two (or more?) posts about our field campaign in the Gulf of Maine during Spring/Summer 2023. It started with a simple idea. Becky (Rebecca Gast) suggested that we might work together to study the extent to which feeding on mixotrophic plankton supports the growth and reproduction of copepods. For me,…

I’ve gotten waaaay behind on updating this blog, and there is a lot to catch up on! Over the next several posts, I’ll share highlights from two recent field campaigns. This post focuses on the “Coral Pulse” cruise that I joined in April aboard the R/V Falkor (too), operated by the Schmidt Ocean Institute. The…