Invertebrates
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Finally published!
I am happy to announce that after doing research for so many years in various settings, throughout my undergraduate and graduate career, I am finally a published scientist. In this publication, I am a contributing author. I haven’t conducted the majority of this research or led this project, but I am one of among a Continue reading
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So long and thanks for all the worms!
The weather at 9°N has been atypical since we arrived. All of the crew and scientists agree that this spot has always been warm, serene, and sunny. Instead, we have experienced clouds, rain, gusty winds, and choppy swells. We haven’t been able to see all of the stars at night, which is one of the Continue reading
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ALVIN dive AD-4836
*I am still unable to post pictures because of the bandwidth. I will update when I get to land in November. It’s been four days since I went to the ocean bottom at 2500 feet in the HOV ALVIN. I’m still in the afterglow of the adventure and processing the breadth and extent of the Continue reading
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If astronauts go to space then what do we call people who go to the bottom of the ocean?
We’re less than 24 hours away from our sampling site at 9° N in the East Pacific Ocean. The traverse to the site has been unusually long. Originally, we had been scheduled to leave from Panama City, which would have shortened our travel time by days. We left from Newport, Oregon because a research cruise Continue reading
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Setting sail
* Unfortunately, due to the low bandwidth on the ship, I can’t upload any pictures. When I return home, I will post many. MANY!* The drive to Newport, Oregon to meet the RV Atlantis was beautiful. Coming from Florida where the days are only now dropping into the 80’s, the weather in the Northwest has Continue reading
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Life @ Sea
Originally posted on Meaning Amidst Measurement: (Note: I wrote the following as a series of email messages to my family while I was conducting research during a 4-week research cruise to the deep sea hydrothermal vents in the Pacific, to give them some idea of what it’s like out there. We left shore in Manzanillo,… Continue reading
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Day 7 at 9 degrees North
Today is our 7th day at sea in the East Pacific. We’ve been stationed at the 9 degrees north study site and have launched two Alvin dives. The first evening of Alvin’s dives brought up buckets of giant Riftia tube worms for me to dissect and take samples that are needed to study the metabolic pathways Continue reading
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8 days away….
First, a shameless brag about a project that I worked on as an intern which was featured in the New York Times… Fighting poisons with microbes Some recent deep-sea footage of some amazing creatures on our home planet, just in time for my deep-sea research cruise. I hope I get to spot any specimens like Continue reading
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