{"id":841,"date":"2019-01-26T13:00:52","date_gmt":"2019-01-26T17:00:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/tarrantlab\/?p=841"},"modified":"2019-07-08T12:34:46","modified_gmt":"2019-07-08T16:34:46","slug":"the-yellow-brick-road","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/tarrantlab\/the-yellow-brick-road\/","title":{"rendered":"The \u201cyellow brick road\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/tarrantlab\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/79\/2019\/06\/Yellow_brick_road-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"Yellow Brick Road\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" \/><\/p>\r\n<p><em>January 22, 2019 (Note: this is #21 in a series of posts describing my NSF-sponsored fieldwork in Antarctica aboard the Laurence M. Gould)<\/em><\/p>\r\n<p>At lunch today, my colleague\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/phytolab.marine.rutgers.edu\/\">Kim Thamatrakoln<\/a>\u00a0asked me if I have been able to collect all the samples I hoped to get. I\u2019m not sure if I audibly sighed, but I certainly sighed a little on the inside. I told her that I was getting a lot of good samples, but I really hoped to get a station with a lot of\u00a0<em>Calanus propinquus.\u00a0<\/em>I\u2019d been able to collect some, but I really wanted enough to do a substantial experiment. I was still hopeful but a little bit discouraged.<\/p>\r\n<p>I guess that sometimes pouting works\u2026 At the very next station, along the shelf edge, we collected a whole bunch of my coveted\u00a0<em>Calanus propinquus<\/em>! I preserved plenty of specimens and also had enough to start a feeding experiment. Life is good!<\/p>\r\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/tarrantlab\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/79\/2019\/06\/Yellow_snow-300x225-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Yellow Snow\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/>After we finished the station, we moved back into the ice. It was too icy to deploy the CTD, so we turned back to continue on our path. As we doubled back, we could see our old tracks as a yellow line through the ice, just like the \u201cYellow Brick Road\u201d from the \u201cWizard of Oz\u201d. The yellowish color is from the diatoms that were released from within and between the chunks of ice. Earlier in the day, Kim collected some chunks of the ice so she can study viral interactions within the ice algae. It\u2019s not every day someone makes good productive use of \u201cyellow snow.\u201d<\/p>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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\u00a0Kim Thamatrakoln\u00a0asked me if I have been able to collect all the samples I hoped to get. I\u2019m not sure if I audibly sighed, but I certainly sighed&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":85,"featured_media":843,"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\/841"}],"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=841"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/tarrantlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/841\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":971,"href":"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/tarrantlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/841\/revisions\/971"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/tarrantlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/843"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/tarrantlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=841"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/tarrantlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=841"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/tarrantlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=841"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}