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The littlest of the little plankton animals
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).
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
An episode in which a word cloud is created, for no good reason.
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
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
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
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
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
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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Still here, still collecting data.
I’ve been quiet for a few days, mainly because of equipment problems that have kept me busy, but we also encountered some inclement weather last night that was not conducive to sitting at a computer. The equipment problems have been … Continue reading
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Labor Day Weekend Data
We’re moving further east and knocking down transects slowly but surely. The OPC will get it’s wet test in about 30 minutes, but the deck tests have been successful, so we’re [still] cautiously optimistic we’ve got the problem licked. Below … Continue reading
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