There's a lot going on here on the R/V Knorr. So much that I can't always keep track of it all. So I made a little flow chart for myself, and thought it might be helpful for you too.
Yesterday I mentioned that two of the coolest things about this cruise are time and scale. We covered time yesterday, looking at Marco Coolen's work on paleo-genetics and the history of Ehux's battle with the virus...
There are two really cool things about this research cruise: time and scale. The researchers are going from satellite images taken from far above the Earth, all the way down to the lipids and proteins found within individual Ehux cells, bridging a huge range of scales...
A while back I wrote about how the CTD was the most important instrument on board. Well, it turns out, I was wrong. Here's the most important instrument: Ena, the coffee maker.
One of the things a lot of people want to know is just who these scientists are in the first place. So in the next few days I'm going to introduce you to some of them.
Today is the first anniversary of the Scientific American Blog Network!!!Expeditions blog has been on our site much longer than one year, on the old platform, but has really taken off in your interest (and traffic) only fairly recently...
One of the scientists on board, Chris Brown, visualized the relationship between Ehux and ship morale. The top there is real data, so you can see just how big the spike was in Ehux concentration in our new spot.In the spirit of Chris's graph, here are some other little graphs I've made in the past few weeks about our time here...
The Knorr is a big ship as far as research vessels go - but there's still no getting around the fact that you're in a little metal box in the middle of the ocean with 49 other people for a month...
I've been asked by the crew to stop calling the Knorr a boat. It's a ship. "A ship can pick up a boat," they tell me. The Knorr is also the largest ship in her fleet.
Yesterday was officially arts and crafts day on the R/V Knorr. We had a very specific project: decorate styrofoam cups.If you're wondering why, just hold on a minute.
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