Today was another busy day aboard the R/V Knorr. We completed our 16th station and are currently in transit. Tomorrow our ship will station at an anchor buoy near Cayenne for a personnel transfer.
At each station, Joaquim, Helga and I take water samples from a CTD instrument that collects water at different depths from the surface to 200m. Here is a picture of me helping Rachel, Victoria, and a Crew member to safely deploy the CTD. After the water is collected we filter, filter, filter! Most of the samples are preserved in a deep freezer and will be taken back to the Bigelow Lab in Maine for processing.
I have added a few extra photos of life on the ship. Below is Jason Landrum, a research assistant in the Montoya lab at Georgia Tech. Jason is a great addition to the crew - in his free time he is often found helping the other research groups finish their work!
Below are pictures of the University of Southern California team deploying one of their three sediment traps (Particle Interceptor Traps – PITS). After lunch last Thursday everyone gathered on the aft deck with their cameras to capture the deployment and relax in the sun for a while. The PITS instrument stays in the water for about two days at a depth of 150m. When the traps are retrieved, the USC team studies the water captured in the twelve tubes to determine the flux of N, C and Si in the ocean. Some of us interns weren’t convinced that the ship would find those small buoys floating in this huge ocean – but sure enough, the satellite systems attached to the traps led us straight back to the fluorescent markers!
Tomorrow we are taking a group picture on the bow – stay tuned for a photo of the ANACONDAS team!
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