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The area is populated with high-density deep-sea corals and sponges and is of great interest to researchers who view it as a stepping-stone between distinct marine ecosystems in the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands and the Central and South Pacific. </p> <p><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20170427103529/http://blogs.agu.org/thefield/2017/03/14/high-resolution-mapping-reveals-evolution-underwater-landscapes-johnston-atoll/" class="more">Read More <span class="more-arrow">>></span></a></p> <br class="clearfloat"/> </div> <div class="post entry" id="post-83408"> <p class="date"> 13 March 2017 </p> <h3 class="posttitle"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20170427103529/http://blogs.agu.org/thefield/2017/03/13/picture-worth-thousand-words/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link to A picture is worth a thousand words"> A picture is worth a thousand words </a></h3> <p>The diversity of shapes and sizes in phytoplankton is overwhelming and beautiful. I was able to see the actual individuals that were in the sea surrounding us all the way across the Pacific. Seeing them first-hand made me realize how interrelated all things are on this planet: they may be invisible, but they are important. We are dependent on them and they on us.</p> <p><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20170427103529/http://blogs.agu.org/thefield/2017/03/13/picture-worth-thousand-words/" class="more">Read More <span class="more-arrow">>></span></a></p> <br class="clearfloat"/> </div> <div class="post entry" id="post-83361"> <p class="date"> 10 March 2017 </p> <h3 class="posttitle"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20170427103529/http://blogs.agu.org/thefield/2017/03/10/color-ocean-sky/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link to What color is the ocean? The sky?"> What color is the ocean? The sky? </a></h3> <p>What Color is the ocean? The sky? Most of us would reply immediately—blue! But what shade of blue? I am exploring this topic during the research cruise by capturing the blues of the sky and sea through direct observation using my eyes and three instruments—watercolors, photography and a cyanometer. </p> <p><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20170427103529/http://blogs.agu.org/thefield/2017/03/10/color-ocean-sky/" class="more">Read More <span class="more-arrow">>></span></a></p> <br class="clearfloat"/> </div> <div class="post entry" id="post-83247"> <p class="date"> 8 March 2017 </p> <h3 class="posttitle"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20170427103529/http://blogs.agu.org/thefield/2017/03/08/phytoplankton-sampling-strategies/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link to Phytoplankton sampling strategies"> Phytoplankton sampling strategies </a></h3> <p>Plankton comes from the greek word planktos, meaning wanderer. It does not define a specific organism, but rather a specific life style. Plankton consist of all organisms dispersed in water that are passively driven by water currents or are subject to passive sinking process. Some of those organisms have an ability to produce oxygen and sugars using sunlight and carbon dioxide, just like terrestrial plants do.</p> <p><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20170427103529/http://blogs.agu.org/thefield/2017/03/08/phytoplankton-sampling-strategies/" class="more">Read More <span class="more-arrow">>></span></a></p> <br class="clearfloat"/> </div> <div class="post entry" id="post-83112"> <p class="date"> 3 March 2017 </p> <h3 class="posttitle"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20170427103529/http://blogs.agu.org/thefield/2017/03/03/oceans-colors-space/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link to The ocean’s colors from space"> The ocean’s colors from space </a></h3> <p>Earth’s ocean is vast and deep, and we still need to study many things about it. To investigate and quantify biological and chemical processes, for instance, we need to determine the concentration and size of particles (living and non-living organisms) floating in the water, dissolved materials, and the diversity of organisms such as the microscopic photosynthetic phytoplankton.</p> <p><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20170427103529/http://blogs.agu.org/thefield/2017/03/03/oceans-colors-space/" class="more">Read More <span class="more-arrow">>></span></a></p> <br class="clearfloat"/> </div> <div class="post entry" id="post-83082"> <p class="date"> 2 March 2017 </p> <h3 class="posttitle"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20170427103529/http://blogs.agu.org/geospace/2017/03/02/study-improves-forecasts-summer-arctic-sea-ice/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link to Study improves forecasts of summer Arctic sea ice"> Study improves forecasts of summer Arctic sea ice </a></h3> <p>Each year, as sea ice starts to melt in the spring following its maximum wintertime extent, scientists still struggle to estimate exactly how much ice they expect will disappear through the melt season. Now, a new NASA forecasting model based on satellite measurements is allowing researchers to make better estimates.</p> <p><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20170427103529/http://blogs.agu.org/geospace/2017/03/02/study-improves-forecasts-summer-arctic-sea-ice/" class="more">Read More <span class="more-arrow">>></span></a></p> <br class="clearfloat"/> </div> <div class="post entry" id="post-83015"> <p class="date"> 1 March 2017 </p> <h3 class="posttitle"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20170427103529/http://blogs.agu.org/thefield/2017/03/01/maiden-voyages/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link to Maiden Voyages"> Maiden Voyages </a></h3> <p>Melissa and Noah are working with two different novel instruments in this cruise. The first one is a time-lapse camera developed after repurposing her previous mobile. The phone will dangle at the base of a 150 meter wire, deployed as part of the Wirewalker assembly. For three or four days, the camera snaps pictures of the base of a sediment trap which collects falling particles called marine snow. </p> <p><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20170427103529/http://blogs.agu.org/thefield/2017/03/01/maiden-voyages/" class="more">Read More <span class="more-arrow">>></span></a></p> <br class="clearfloat"/> </div> <div class="post entry" id="post-82965"> <p class="date"> 28 February 2017 </p> <h3 class="posttitle"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20170427103529/http://blogs.agu.org/thefield/2017/02/28/going-with-the-flow/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link to Going with the flow"> Going with the flow </a></h3> <p>Trying to sleep on a trampoline while somebody is jumping on it – this is how it feels during many nights at sea as the ship zig-zags in an imaginary box around our drifting instruments in the North Pacific during winter. This is when biological activity is lowest, but clearly there is no absence of physical forces, such as waves. Clearly.</p> <p><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20170427103529/http://blogs.agu.org/thefield/2017/02/28/going-with-the-flow/" class="more">Read More <span class="more-arrow">>></span></a></p> <br class="clearfloat"/> </div> <div class="post entry" id="post-82920"> <p class="date"> 27 February 2017 </p> <h3 class="posttitle"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20170427103529/http://blogs.agu.org/thefield/2017/02/27/measuring-pulse-ocean/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link to Measuring the pulse of the ocean"> Measuring the pulse of the ocean </a></h3> <p>At the unholy hour of 0400, I find myself on the aft deck of the world-class research vessel Falkor, bubbling with excitement stemming from a unique combination of four shots of espresso, generally being a morning person, and, most importantly, preparing to test an experimental device that I have put my blood, sweat, and tears into. I take a moment to silently congratulate myself on the superb display of stamina and posture; it appears that my sea legs have finally decided to make an appearance.</p> <p><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20170427103529/http://blogs.agu.org/thefield/2017/02/27/measuring-pulse-ocean/" class="more">Read More <span class="more-arrow">>></span></a></p> <br class="clearfloat"/> </div> <div class="post entry" id="post-82692"> <p class="date"> 16 February 2017 </p> <h3 class="posttitle"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20170427103529/http://blogs.agu.org/thefield/2017/02/16/letting-go-looking-forward/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link to Letting Go and Looking Forward"> Letting Go and Looking Forward </a></h3> <p>As the bright yellow line and blinking strobe slip slowly down into the heaving waves, I feel a familiar sense of unease. Even though I have seventeen successful deployments of free-drifting, neutrally-buoyant sediment traps (or NBSTs) under my belt, it never feels quite normal to see the gray and orange float with its payload of painstakingly-prepared sample collectors sink away from the comparatively safe, solid deck of the ship.</p> <p><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20170427103529/http://blogs.agu.org/thefield/2017/02/16/letting-go-looking-forward/" class="more">Read More <span class="more-arrow">>></span></a></p> <br class="clearfloat"/> </div> <div class="post entry" id="post-82688"> <p class="date"> </p> <h3 class="posttitle"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20170427103529/http://blogs.agu.org/thefield/2017/02/16/video-rough-recovery/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link to Video ~ Rough Recovery"> Video ~ Rough Recovery </a></h3> <p>Often, the “small victories” of a research cruise are what add up to a successful expedition. This video gives a great look into what many probably assume is an easy task: recovering samples and getting them on board Research Vessel Falkor.</p> <p><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20170427103529/http://blogs.agu.org/thefield/2017/02/16/video-rough-recovery/" class="more">Read More <span class="more-arrow">>></span></a></p> <br class="clearfloat"/> </div> <div class="post entry" id="post-82544"> <p class="date"> 13 February 2017 </p> <h3 class="posttitle"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20170427103529/http://blogs.agu.org/thefield/2017/02/13/sea-space-trek-oceans-final-frontier/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link to Sea to Space Trek: Oceans, The Final Frontier"> Sea to Space Trek: Oceans, The Final Frontier </a></h3> <p>On board we have holographic microscope. (Yes, holographic!) In contrast to a normal microscope, the recorded holograms can refocus the microscopic image at different distances to the camera. </p> <p><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20170427103529/http://blogs.agu.org/thefield/2017/02/13/sea-space-trek-oceans-final-frontier/" class="more">Read More <span class="more-arrow">>></span></a></p> <br class="clearfloat"/> </div> <div class="post entry" id="post-82158"> <p class="date"> 3 February 2017 </p> <h3 class="posttitle"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20170427103529/http://blogs.agu.org/thefield/2017/02/03/lack-sea-ice-lower-48-weather/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link to Lack of sea ice and Lower 48 weather"> Lack of sea ice and Lower 48 weather </a></h3> <p>Unless you are now eating muktuk in Savoogna, it’s hard to pinpoint the effects of less sea ice floating on the northern oceans. But some researchers say the northern ocean — now absorbing so much more heat and reflecting so much less — is affecting weather far from the Arctic.</p> <p><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20170427103529/http://blogs.agu.org/thefield/2017/02/03/lack-sea-ice-lower-48-weather/" class="more">Read More <span class="more-arrow">>></span></a></p> <br class="clearfloat"/> </div> <div class="post entry" id="post-82095"> <p class="date"> 1 February 2017 </p> <h3 class="posttitle"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20170427103529/http://blogs.agu.org/thefield/2017/02/01/taking-sail-creative-voyage-sea-space/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link to Taking Sail on a Creative Voyage from Sea to Space"> Taking Sail on a Creative Voyage from Sea to Space </a></h3> <p>I will do as they did, utilizing my 21st Century skills as scientific illustrator, designer and photographer, to explore and share the connections between nature, science, and art.</p> <p><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20170427103529/http://blogs.agu.org/thefield/2017/02/01/taking-sail-creative-voyage-sea-space/" class="more">Read More <span class="more-arrow">>></span></a></p> <br class="clearfloat"/> </div> <div class="post entry" id="post-81699"> <p class="date"> 23 January 2017 </p> <h3 class="posttitle"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20170427103529/http://blogs.agu.org/thefield/2017/01/23/closing-video-eyes-surface-mapping-johnston-atoll/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link to Closing Video – Eyes Below the Surface: Mapping Johnston Atoll"> Closing Video – Eyes Below the Surface: Mapping Johnston Atoll </a></h3> <p>“This part of the ocean has never been mapped before… tens of millions of years – stories that have to be put together.” Our final #MappinTheFloor transit/cruise video explains what was accomplished and how members of the team will move forward with the data and discoveries!</p> <p><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20170427103529/http://blogs.agu.org/thefield/2017/01/23/closing-video-eyes-surface-mapping-johnston-atoll/" class="more">Read More <span class="more-arrow">>></span></a></p> <br class="clearfloat"/> </div> <div class="post entry" id="post-81659"> <p class="date"> 20 January 2017 </p> <h3 class="posttitle"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20170427103529/http://blogs.agu.org/thefield/2017/01/20/student-at-sea-troubleshooting/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link to A Student at Sea ~ Troubleshooting"> A Student at Sea ~ Troubleshooting </a></h3> <p>Even as an early career scientist, I have learned that things seldom go as planned. Unforeseen obstacles, despite the stress, make science refreshingly exciting, interesting, and sometimes result in unexpected (important) discoveries. </p> <p><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20170427103529/http://blogs.agu.org/thefield/2017/01/20/student-at-sea-troubleshooting/" class="more">Read More <span class="more-arrow">>></span></a></p> <br class="clearfloat"/> </div> <div class="post entry" id="post-81613"> <p class="date"> 19 January 2017 </p> <h3 class="posttitle"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20170427103529/http://blogs.agu.org/thefield/2017/01/19/antarctic-scientists-honor-obama-collecting-climate-data/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link to Antarctic Scientists Honor Obama by Collecting Climate Data"> Antarctic Scientists Honor Obama by Collecting Climate Data </a></h3> <p>Researchers studying the West Antarctic Peninsula marine ecosystem will recognize President Obama’s efforts to combat global warming by collecting climate data at an oceanographic station they named for the 44th president.</p> <p><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20170427103529/http://blogs.agu.org/thefield/2017/01/19/antarctic-scientists-honor-obama-collecting-climate-data/" class="more">Read More <span class="more-arrow">>></span></a></p> <br class="clearfloat"/> </div> <div class="post entry" id="post-81607"> <p class="date"> </p> <h3 class="posttitle"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20170427103529/http://blogs.agu.org/thefield/2017/01/19/drawing-ocean-exploration-multibeam/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link to Drawing You into Ocean Exploration with Multibeam"> Drawing You into Ocean Exploration with Multibeam </a></h3> <p>Check out this animated explanation of ocean exploration during the #MappinTheFloor expedition and Falkor’s multibeam!</p> <p><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20170427103529/http://blogs.agu.org/thefield/2017/01/19/drawing-ocean-exploration-multibeam/" class="more">Read More <span class="more-arrow">>></span></a></p> <br class="clearfloat"/> </div> <div class="post entry" id="post-81557"> <p class="date"> 17 January 2017 </p> <h3 class="posttitle"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20170427103529/http://blogs.agu.org/thefield/2017/01/17/takeaways-and-reflections/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link to Takeaways and Reflections"> Takeaways and Reflections </a></h3> <p>I have been asked a whole bunch of times by the crew, media representatives and 11th Hour Racing and Schmidt Ocean Institute representatives what my “takeaway” is. 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