'Why does the deep sea matters?' can be answered differently depending on who you ask. If you ask Travis Washburn, PhD student at Harte Research Institute/Texas A&M-Corpus Christi, he'll describe nutrients moving up through the food web, and ecosystem services…
We may never know precisely how oil spilled from the Deepwater Horizon well on April 20th, 2010, but C-IMAGE modelers are working hard to understand the intricacies of oil blowouts. Inok Jun is a PhD student at Texas A&M University…
Tracking fish throughout their life cycle has improved tremendously over the past decades thanks to advancements in isotope chemistry and natural fish tags. Jennifer Granneman studies the otiliths (ear bones) of fish to see if their exposure to pollutants like…
Previous students of the month blogs have focused on hydrocarbon degradation at high pressure and in anerobic environments, and remote sensing and optical oceanography. Now we look at a more biological factor studied through C-IMAGE...Microbes. Although you cannot sea them,…
Not many places in the world does time stretch, compress, and become seemingly relative, but the middle of the ocean is one of them. This includes my last four days aboard the Weatherbird II out here in the near middle…
I have the privilege of cruising back on a transect from Tuxpan, Mexico to St. Pete aboard the RV Weatherbird II, collecting planktonic fish eggs for DNA barcoding. You should know, as I told someone a few days ago: this IS my…
Antes de hacerles saber mis comentarios sobre lo observado en mi corta estancia a bordo del R/V Weatherbird II, deseo agradecer al Dr Murawski la invitación a este crucero. Before expressing my comments regarding what I observed during my short…
Day 19 onboard the R/V Weatherbird II for the C-Image II Southern Gulf of Mexico expedition. Last night, while transiting across Bahia de Campeche, we were able to view the supermoon lunar eclipse, also known as the “blood moon”. This…
El trabajo observado para la colecta de organismos y sedimentos nos muestra otras técnicas de pesca así como la toma de las muestras. Donde se puede obtimizar el volumen de muestra para diversos análisis por organismo. The work observed collecting…
En la colaboración del Dr. Steve de la Universidad del Sur de Florida y del Dr. Adolfo Gracia de la Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México pude observar diferencias en la forma de trabajo; debido a que el arte de pesca…
