2019 NSF-UNOLS Biological and Chemical Oceanography Chief Scientist Training Cruise

The science party!

cswauthor — Fri, 28 Jun 2019 16:12:53 +0000

Here is a picture of the entire science party aboard the R/V Kilo Moana celebrating a successful end to the Chief Scientist Training Cruise!

& when all is said and done… WHALE SHARK! – B. B. Cael

cswauthor — Fri, 28 Jun 2019 14:00:50 +0000

We’ll leave you all with a little video that we weren’t able to upload while at sea, of a majestic little friend that stopped by to say hello. Angel heroically had the prescience to tape a go-pro to a pole & dunk it in the water while most of the rest of us stood around …

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Conducting research at sea: challenges, solutions and jury-rigging – Abigail Bockus

cswauthor — Fri, 28 Jun 2019 03:41:42 +0000

Even after months of preparation and meticulous planning, likelihood is a research cruise isn’t going to go exactly as planned. And sure enough, every scientist on the R/V Kilo Moana had their own stories of previous shipment delays, gear malfunctions, or (worst of all) the time that prized piece of equipment sank to the ocean …

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Thoughts from a first-time research cruise participant: it is, and is not, like a family vacation – Aspen Reese

cswauthor — Tue, 25 Jun 2019 16:00:20 +0000

Filtering water samples with a view. (Image credit: Abigail Bockus) Once in my youth, I went on a family cruise near Baja; this was really my only frame of reference coming into the Chief Scientist Training cruise. My field work mostly keeps me on land moving about by car with the occasional plane or …

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What a day!: Oceanographers working around the clock for the love of science – Paulina Pinedo

cswauthor — Tue, 25 Jun 2019 11:00:24 +0000

Left: McLane pump. Right: filter before and after pumping ~200 liters of seawater at 45 meters depth. It is midnight. Sunday has just begun and I find myself, once more, very busy aboard a research cruise in the middle of the Pacific. The name of my home for the next ten days on the seas …

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Day in the life of a scientist at sea – Harriet Alexander

cswauthor — Mon, 24 Jun 2019 22:00:10 +0000

Hello, I am Harriet Alexander. I am one of the early career scientists participating in the training cruise. On this cruise, I am part of the higher trophic level group (HTL), which working to characterize the contribution of larger organisms (meaning larger than microbes, read: small fish and zooplankton) to carbon flux in the North …

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Tools of the trade – Eric Orenstein

cswauthor — Mon, 24 Jun 2019 16:00:10 +0000

Clockwise from left: The zooplankton team deploying the MOCNESS (look closely to see the doors that open at different depths); a riot of plankton collected with the MOCNESS; an image of an arrow worm, or chaetognath, taken at Station ALOHA by the Scripps Plankton Camera; the author assembling the SPC aboard the Kilo Moana. Ocean …

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Vision and bioluminescence – Tom Iwanicki

cswauthor — Sun, 23 Jun 2019 04:06:42 +0000

Figure 1: Zooplankton collected from Station ALOHA using a MOCNESS net. The community of zooplankton emit bioluminescence as they are disturbed in a tube. The likely emitters are various copepods from the genus Pleuromamma. When you close your eyes and think of bioluminescence what do you see? People often see the twinkle of …

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Vision and bioluminescence – Tom Iwanicki

cswauthor — Sun, 23 Jun 2019 04:03:34 +0000

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Enigmatic organisms in the ocean – Wei Qin

cswauthor — Fri, 21 Jun 2019 22:00:15 +0000

Microbes are the most abundant form of life in the ocean, the largest biological system on Earth. While they are generally too small to be seen by the unaided eye, there are 100 million times as many microbes in the oceans (13 × 1028) as there are stars in the known universe. However, for every …

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