ALVIN
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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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Photos from my sea expedition (part 1)
I started my trip in Oregon and saw sea lions for the first time! They were so noisy! One would start barking and then they would all chime in. I wanted to post a video, but I need to upgrade my blog account to support video files, so here is a youtube link instead. 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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10/10 further from shore, but not far enough
The best way to deal with seasickness is to take a nap. As soon as I start to feel queasy, I lie down in my bunk and when I wake up I feel better. I have tried to power through seasickness before because there is a lot of work to do, but it only prolongs Continue reading
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Third Time is a Charm
I’ll be going back to sea in less than two weeks. The time has come so quickly. I have known for two years since my last expedition that I would be returning to 9 degrees north of the equator in the Eastern Pacific Ocean, but I did not know exactly when until a few months 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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Changed forever at sea
As a first year grad student, I have had a lot of personal challenges on this trip. There have been tremendous highs and depressing lows. Science at sea is about seizing every moment that you can and making the most of every moment that is possible. This is especially true in the case of my 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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First Launch at Nine Degrees North
This morning was the first launch of 16 over the next two weeks here on the Dark Cruise 2014 at Nine Degrees North. The first passengers on the ship are Stefan Seivert and his PhD graduate student Jesse McNichol from Wood’s Hole Oceanographic Institute. They’ll be back in about 6 hours with samples and then we Continue reading
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