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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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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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The Gordon Research Conference experience 2016
Notes from my 3 hour Delta delay at LaGuardia airport I am reflecting on the last 7 days that I spent at the Gordon Research Conference (GRC), Molecular Biology of C1 Micorbial Metabolism conference in Waterville Valley, New Hampshire. The GRC meets every 2 years to exchange and present ideas from experts in the field Continue reading
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Do better
So many things have been happening that I don’t know where I should start. I have been working very hard trying to maintain balance between two very important parts of my life every day, week to week for almost two years in addition to taking care of my home, my husband, and my animal babies. Continue reading
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Finding Balance
This last semester, the start of my second year in graduate school has been extremely challenging. I’ve had a lot of challenge in my life, but navigating new challenges, or a unique array of old ones sometimes can be very exhausting. I took a genomics class, taught two Biology 2 lab sections, and still tried to get 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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Long Time, No Sea
Since returning from my research cruise 3 months ago, winter break has come and gone and a new semester has begun. The samples that were collected at sea with the submersible ALVIN are being stored in a -80 degree celsius freezer in the laboratory. The relationship between my advisor and I has survived the pressure Continue reading
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Rewind to October 30th, arriving in Manzanillo
Before flying out to Mexico on October 30th, equipment and chemicals had to be shipped to the research vessel Atlantis which was docked in San Francisco before sailing to meet the science group in Manzanillo. When preparing for a research cruise every experiment to be preformed must be walked through meticulously, and everything that could conceivably 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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