Monthly Archives: September 2010

A Yalie’s Tale

Posted on September 30, 2010 by planktoneer

On our ill-fated last cruise, we had the good fortune to sail with two volunteers from Yale, an undergraduate senior and a graduate student. What is our connection with Yale? Why, our very own Jellyfisher is a research scientist at … Continue reading →

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Not the ending we wanted

Posted on September 26, 2010 by planktoneer

I’ve been quiet on the blog for a few days, mainly because we’ve been busy and because I was feeling like I was running out of things to write about.  I’ve started two blog posts but haven’t completed them, but … Continue reading →

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The littlest of the little plankton animals

Posted on September 24, 2010 by planktoneer

One of the goals of this project in the Chesapeake is to identify the links the in the foodweb out here, and how those links are affected by the presence of low oxygen water, otherwise known as hypoxia. In previous … Continue reading →

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The retreat (of hypoxia, not science).

Posted on September 22, 2010 by planktoneer

We’ve been in the Chesapeake Bay for 36 hours now, and sampling for about 30 of those hours, so it’s probably time to check in. So far we’ve completed a Scanfish survey, 6 CTD casts and a few net tows. … Continue reading →

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An episode in which a word cloud is created, for no good reason.

Posted on September 20, 2010 by planktoneer

I was turned on to Wordle.net when a colleague used it as  the opening slide of a presentation. Since then I’ve used it to create word clouds from various documents and papers I’ve written, mostly for fun, but it does … Continue reading →

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Once more for good measure

Posted on September 17, 2010 by planktoneer

It’s been almost two weeks since we were last out on a boat so it must be time again!  On Monday we’ll be loading the RV Hugh R. Sharp for our last trip into the Chesapeake Bay to look at … Continue reading →

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Another one for the books

Posted on September 8, 2010 by planktoneer

We’re all at the airport now, awaiting our flights back to Oregon, Maryland, and Florida. There is a van on its way back to Michigan with a freezer full of fish samples from the trawl. The shipping company will be … Continue reading →

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Revised TS Plot

Posted on September 7, 2010 by planktoneer

Whoops, the TS plot I put up the other day (here) was completely wrong, but I’ve fixed it in the previous post and put it again here. Enjoy!

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The home stretch

Posted on September 7, 2010 by planktoneer

It’s about 5 am central time, we’re on our last transect of this cruise, Neil Young is ‘Rockin’ in the Free World’, and the Late-Night watch is feeling contemplative. As we turned the corner and deployed the CTD for our … Continue reading →

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Bottom and midwater hypoxia shows up

Posted on September 6, 2010 by planktoneer

Here’s the most recent plot of our Scanfish transects, showing 1) how far east we’ve come on the cruise, and 2) the presence of both bottom and mid-water hypoxia. The second plot shows a blow up of only the last … Continue reading →

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