Back on Land!

Hello All!


I hope everyone has been enjoying their summers!

The ANACONDAS project is still on my mind! It has been about one month since the R/V Knorr docked in port at Bridgetown, Barbados and dropped off 30 very tired scientists. The last few days onboard were extremely busy with each group putting the finishing touches on their experiments and packing up their lab equipment.


Since returning home to Maine, I have continued to work with the experiments we started near the Amazon Plume. I am currently runinng my CDOM samples through a fluorescence spectrophotometer at Bowdoin College while Helga runs QFT samples late into the night at Bigelow Labs in Boothbay Harbor. It is exciting to finally see some results from the samples we collected at sea!


I would like to send a huge thank you to everyone that made this trip possible for me. First I would like to thank the Maine Space Grant Consortium Fellowship Program for funding my research while onboard. Thank you also to Dr. Joaquim Goes and Dr. Helga do Rosario Gomes for providing me with this wonderful experience. Throughout our five weeks onboard the R/V Knorr you taught me new lessons on oceanography, research skills, and working in the field of science. Thank you for being such wonderful mentors and friends.


Thank you all for reading my blog and sharing this adventure with me!