The Scientist will all be working together at the site looking at the same site looking at how climate change has affected the ocean.
The name of the research vessel that they are on is called the R/V Melvine
The educational insitution the vessel is Scripps Institution of Oceanogrophy UC san diego. The ship weights 3,026,000 lbs fully loaded.
Day 3, Releasing the MOCNESS
Mocness stands for multiple opening and closing net and environment sensing system. It consists of 10 separate nets that go out simultaneously. Many animals such as krill will try to go deeper in the water to avoid predators such as blue whales, sardines and other animals that find food with their eyes. By going deeper in the water there is less light, so they can hopefully avoid being eaten. Phytoplankton are microscopic creatures that live in the deep sea.
Day 6, SeaSoaring Away The CCE resarchers will look at how many types and what kinds of zooplankton species are at the different depths ranging from 0 ft to 1500 ft. CTD stands for Conductivity, temperature and depth. E- Front stands for eddy front, "from the satellite pictures we are getting from NASA".
Day 10, Ahoy E- Front E- Front stands for eddy front, "from the satellite pictures we are getting from NASA". So that they can ensure that the zooplankton was present at the sampling depth. The epipelagic zone is all the water would flow through the net leaving the zooplankton from the light zone of the ocean. The sample changes are getting darker. Chlorophy 11 samples are preserved because they needed to fill 4 bottles with water from each of the 8- sampling depths. once the water was obtained, they went inside to filter the water, which consisted of fouring each bottle of water through a different type of size of filter paper, then collecting the paper, preserving the filter paper in acetone and freezing it. This needed to be completed before the next station.
Day 12, Team Oozkeki By the types of fish that live in the deep sea of the water, is the mesopelagic zone and the critters that are found there.
Day 14, Shrunken Cups To prepare these cups for deployment carefully placed a piece of tape over the tops, so none of the cups would get eaten or stuck in another cup. Then carefully placed them into mesh laundry bags to attach to the CTD.
Day 19, Trace Metal Group Iron is important to phytoplankton because it is a nutrient needed. In the lab th bottles are strapped, on the plastic racks attached until they are tapped.
Day 21, Twinkle little seat How carbon and nutrients such as nitrogen, flow through the food chain. By looking at the amount of carbon which is found in the scat of zooplankton or another sinking material. It is collected by marine snow it is what scientists commonly call all the scat and other materials, such as phytoplankton, that fall through the water column. It can look like snow falling through the ocean.
Day 24, Marine Birds Long lining is dangerous to marine birds because the albatross will see a fish on the line leaf it, and get stuck on the baft, which results in them drowning. Seeing them in the pacific ocean is a good indicator of a healthy ecosystem. Fin whales have two fins and only come up for air. They eat baren. Take a big mouthful of water and filter out all of the zooplankton to feed on.
Day 26, Copepods Copepods are a type of zooplankton found in the pacific, related to crabs and lobsters. Kat studies the copepod reproduction and Bongo studies nets for copepods.
Day 29, Last day The bow dome is in the bottom of the front of the boat, so that they could watch marine life such as dolphins and whales in their habitat. It would be interesting to discover life that has not been discovered yet. Twingle little scat is the most interesting for me because that is where it explained more about marine science.