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Spending weeks at a time on a single boat, working long days in the blazing sun and battling sea-sickness, can be a rough experience (but still worth it for the samples! And data!). There's some definite perks to being out here, though, and working long hours means we get to experience all sorts of things I would never see otherwise. When I'm up at 2am troubleshooting a piece of equipment that I need to get to work, with no way to go buy tools at a Home Depot, there's nothing

Deploying our net traps off the back of the boat In between watching gorgeous sunsets and enjoying the flying fish, we've managed to fit in a lot of science, and at least a couple hours of sleep! One of our main cruise objectives is to understand the sinking organic matter in this region, which includes "marine snow", to understand why this part of the ocean is so efficient at trapping carbon. We use two types of tools to catch this sinking organic matter: net traps and Parti

Written by Marianna Karagiannis It's already been a full week since we woke up at 3:30 am to drive to San Diego and load up the ship. Time flies! It's been smooth sailing so far, which I am incredibly grateful for as I am quite prone to seasickness. Why I decided to become an oceanographer while knowing this about myself is a mystery, but being out here in the ocean is so magical that I think it's worth it! As long as I have a steady supply of medication and ginger chews. Our

Open Pacific ahead! We're off! 🤩 For the next six weeks, we'll be at sea on the RV Kilo Moana thanks to the irreplaceable US National Science Foundation (NSF). We're headed to an anoxic zone on the Pacific coast of Mexico, investigating how this environment preserves huge quantities of organic carbon, and why that might be a story about sulfur. 💛 Everything is off the dock! Somehow, three truckloads fit on board.