{"id":824,"date":"2019-01-18T12:40:11","date_gmt":"2019-01-18T16:40:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/tarrantlab\/?p=824"},"modified":"2019-07-08T12:32:43","modified_gmt":"2019-07-08T16:32:43","slug":"the-grind","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/tarrantlab\/the-grind\/","title":{"rendered":"The grind"},"content":{"rendered":"
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January 17 2019 (Note: this is #16 in a series of posts describing my NSF-sponsored fieldwork in Antarctica aboard the Laurence M. Gould).<\/em><\/p>\n

Can you see the little copepod near my fingertips on the spoon? That\u2019s\u00a0Calanus propinquus<\/em>. I guess I shouldn\u2019t play favorites with my \u201csubjects,\u201d but, between us, It\u2019s kind of my favorite. If you get a nice well-fed specimen, the red antennae really stand out. They are also really graceful in the water, kind of like aerial artists, sometimes they\u2019ll do flips end-over-end.<\/p>\n

Pretty copepods aside, I\u2019ll admit that yesterday was kind of a grind. I had the opportunity to sample two stations, and they were both teeming with copepods. I sampled and sampled and sampled. I had just finished one station when it was time to start the next one. Then when I finished all that, I still had to do water changes for my experiment. It was a long day with a lot of time on the microscope and a bunch more time squinting at nearly transparent small animals in a bucket. When it was all over, I was happy to stretch out my back and spend some time focusing my eyes on more distant things. I\u2019m glad I made a big push today because it will be my last chance to sample for a few days. Tomorrow we\u2019ll be doing more MOCNESS tows (cool, but not really part of my project) and the next day we\u2019ll be visiting Rothera, a British Antarctic station, for a scientific exchange.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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\u2019s\u00a0Calanus propinquus. I guess I shouldn\u2019t play favorites with my \u201csubjects,\u201d but, between us, It\u2019s kind of my favorite. If…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":85,"featured_media":825,"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\/824"}],"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=824"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/tarrantlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/824\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":882,"href":"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/tarrantlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/824\/revisions\/882"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/tarrantlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/825"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/tarrantlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=824"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/tarrantlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=824"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/tarrantlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=824"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}