{"id":819,"date":"2019-01-18T12:36:15","date_gmt":"2019-01-18T16:36:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/tarrantlab\/?p=819"},"modified":"2019-07-08T12:32:18","modified_gmt":"2019-07-08T16:32:18","slug":"creatures-from-the-deep","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/tarrantlab\/creatures-from-the-deep\/","title":{"rendered":"Creatures from the deep"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/tarrantlab\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/79\/2019\/06\/Squid_small-1024x682.jpg\" alt=\"Squid\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" \/><\/p>\r\n<p><em>January 16 2019 (Note: this is #15 in a series of posts describing my NSF-sponsored fieldwork in Antarctica aboard the Laurence M. Gould).<\/em><\/p>\r\n<p>Yesterday was relatively uneventful for me. We had some technical difficulties, so there wasn\u2019t much sampling and sorting going on. Instead, I had time for my shipboard \u201chobbies\u201d: tending to my experiment, catching up on data entry, reading graduate school applications for my department back home, and a brief trip to the gym.<\/p>\r\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/tarrantlab\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/79\/2019\/06\/fish_Small-300x200-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"Sample\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" \/>Today was more exciting. Everything was working perfectly, so we were able to do vertically stratified sampling using a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/MOCNESS\">MOCNESS<\/a>. Basically it\u2019s a fancy set of nets that lets us sample different depths in the water column, like a stack of layers on a cake. We sorted through nets that sampled as deep as 1000 m (over half a mile down!). This was my first time sorting through deep samples, and it was really fun to explore the differences between each sample. I\u2019ve pasted in a couple of my favorites\u2026we got 4 small squid from the 200-300 m sample One of them even released some yellowish ink. The squid in the picture at the top was about the size of a dime. I also liked this little larval fish (Probably from family Paraleptidae). It was probably about a centimeter long (similar to the diameter of a dime), but very narrow and clear. The mouthparts look pretty fierce to me. Tomorrow we\u2019ll go back to sampling our regular stations, which should mean more copepods for me!<\/p>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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\u2019t much sampling and sorting going on. Instead, I had time for my shipboard \u201chobbies\u201d: tending to my experiment,&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":85,"featured_media":821,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/tarrantlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/819"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/tarrantlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/tarrantlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/tarrantlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/85"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/tarrantlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=819"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/tarrantlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/819\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":969,"href":"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/tarrantlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/819\/revisions\/969"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/tarrantlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/821"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/tarrantlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=819"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/tarrantlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=819"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/tarrantlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=819"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}