For the last 2 days we’ve been busy doing an assortment of science activities at our first two “stations”. These are locations of interest where we stop the ship (or circle around slowly) so that we can sample the water and survey what is living in it.
We are in relatively shallow waters, sitting above an underwater shelf and still well within sight of Antarctica. We see lots of snowy mountains and icebergs!
Josh Stone, a grad student at the Virginia Institute of Marine Science, notes the size and gender of Euphausia superba. These are a type of krill which primarily eat photosynthetic plankton (aka algae).
Josh Stone, a grad student at the Virginia Institute of Marine Science, notes the size and gender of Euphausia superba. These are a type of krill which primarily eat photosynthetic plankton (aka algae).
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