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Hola ocean amigos! Hopefully you all have heard from your newly minted Mexican oceanographers by now, but in case you haven’t, we officially arrived back in Seattle and are diving head first into our projects. Speaking for myself and the other professors, the cruise was out-of-this-world awesome. The weather was amazing (except for the storm . . . → Read More: Back Home! It’s been one week since the cruise down the Mexican coast has ended and let me tell you it hasn’t gotten any easier. The exploration is over and now it’s time to analyze the data we all collected to uncover what we found and see our new discoveries. We all had a great time aboard . . . → Read More: Cruise Complete! by Logan I collected my fourth and final set of data coming into Manzanillo two days ago. So far, I’ve found some good evidence to support my hypothesis. All my data will need more time to analyze and process, but I think that what I’ve collected looks quite promising. I really enjoyed my time on the . . . → Read More: Leaving on a jet plane by Kim Swanson “I am so excited to be coming home!” That’s where I thought my mood was going to be at this point, the last day of the trip. Yet, here I find myself sad that the cruise is coming to a conclusion. This sentiment is amplified even more in consideration that this may be my last . . . → Read More: There’s No Place Like Home? by Eric For my thesis project, I am examining how the zooplankton community changes in areas of depleted oxygen. My project design includes stations along our transect from San Diego to Manzanillo—at each station I have taken several net tows at different depths so I can figure out exactly what organisms are living where in the water . . . → Read More: Tropical Zooplankton by Martha The past week on our cruise has been spent collecting gallons and gigabytes of data and interpreting and processing these data in waves of intense focus and emotional investment. The project I share with Casey and Cat, mapping the undersea tectonic spreading ridges between Baja California and mainland Mexico, gives the rest of the science . . . → Read More: Zen and the Art of Seafloor Mapping by George For the last week and some change, I have been quite secluded from the majority of the other inhabitants of the R/V Thompson. My lab is through three doors down a hall and to the right from the main labs. And I have had A LOT of water to analyze. Collecting water samples about every . . . → Read More: Ocean Acidification and Sleep Deprivation (Danger Zone) by Melissa #gallery-3 { margin: auto; } #gallery-3 .gallery-item { float: left; margin-top: 10px; text-align: center; width: 33%; } #gallery-3 img { border: 2px solid #cfcfcf; } #gallery-3 .gallery-caption { margin-left: 0; } Life on the Thomas G Thompson has been a quite a trip. On the first day we set sail out into a storm . . . → Read More: Science on the high seas! by Will I write this exhausted after another hot day in the sun. Wednesday the 21st has to be the best day so far. There wasn’t a cloud in the sky much to the enjoyment of all, besides those who fell asleep in the hammocks for a little too long! Shortly after another spectacular sunrise the first . . . → Read More: Dolphins dolphins dolphins dolphins by Matt Rivers The great thing about doing a study which requires seafloor mapping is the instant gratification. As soon as the survey begins, and the sonar starts pinging (or chirping), an image appears on the computer display. If all the planning went well, you get to sit back and watch your data appear, in rainbow colors or . . . → Read More: Maps from Sound! by Amanda |
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