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Martina Mascioni's First Trip to AntarcticaMarch 7, 2022Although I had been working with Antarctic phytoplankton since 2015, I had never had the chance to travel to the white continent. After six years of learning about the entire Antarctic continent only through photos, place names, stories, Google-searches and scientific articles, my anticipation of... -
Meet Undergrad SURF student Anesse PinpokintrSeptember 1, 2021Who are you? What are you doing in school? Hello! My name’s Anesse Pinpokintr. I was born in Southern California, but I travel to Thailand often to visit my extended family. I go to the University of Rochester and I’m majoring in environmental science and minoring...
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Undergraduates the Next Generation of Polar ScientistsSeptember 1, 2021Meet the next generation of polar scientists working in the Vernet Lab with FjordPhyto at Scripps Institution of Oceanography! For the 2021 summer (10-weeks), Anesse Pinpokintr and Christian Johnson, two incredibly bright and passionate undergraduate students, worked in the Vernet Lab as part of the Scripps...
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Climate Change: What do all scientists and governments agree on?September 1, 2021Scientists from around the world come together to write giant reports on everything we scientifically know about how the climate on Earth is changing. The current state of the climate, possible climate futures, climate information for risk assessment and adaptation, and limiting future change. This...
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We are NASA funded!!September 1, 2021We are so excited to announce that FjordPhyto is now funded by NASA!! We are excited to become a part of this NASA community of citizen science practitioners to continue to bring FjordPhyto citizen science to Travelers heading to see the wonders of Antarctica! In 2021,...
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Updates: Teamwork makes the dream workFebruary 19, 2020Thank you for visiting the FjordPhyto site! This is a post to share some quick updates with you all and provide links to all the great work being done. The sampling season in Antarctica is still under way with our IAATO tour ship partners hard at...
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Tiny but mighty - why we owe our existence to the phytoplanktonFebruary 19, 2020https://iaato.org/documents/10157/25111/Blog+-+Tiny+but+mighty+-+why+we+owe+our+existence+to+the+phytoplankton.pdf/86487c66-4c7d-4df5-b99f-102264e707a0
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First Publication from FjordPhyto OnlineSeptember 18, 2019HOT OFF THE PRESS. Our first official publication is out! Read the publication here and check out the awesome microscope images of the species we found: Mascioni, M., Almandoz, G. O., Cefarelli, A. O., Cusick, A., Ferrario, M. E., & Vernet, M. (2019). Phytoplankton composition and bloom...
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Martina from Argentina receives IAATO Fellowship to come to ScrippsJuly 31, 2019Congratulations to Martina Mascioni who is one of the recipients of the first IAATO Antarctic Fellowship! Martina is currently a graduate student (PhD) from the University of La Plata, Argentina, and with this fellowship she will be able to will come to Scripps Institution of Oceanography...
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Sharing the FjordPhyto project through conference presentationsMay 5, 2019Part of a scientists job is to communicate their work. We do that in multiple ways: through conversations with friends and family, talking to colleagues at school, posting to online social media platforms, creating outreach educational materials, submitting peer-reviewed publications, writing books, and of course,...
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Jack Pan studies how phytoplankton play a role in Antarctic fjordsMay 5, 2019Another Vernet Lab member you may not have heard about yet is Jack Pan. Jack has been working hard to understand phytoplankton and the optical properties of water within Andvord Bay - a beloved fjord where the Neko Harbour landing is located. He recently had a...
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Heading back down to the Ice 2019January 10, 2019Antarctica is one of the most spectacular places on Earth, in my opinion – to get to the peninsula, I must cross the infamous Drake Passage, a 620 mile (1000 km) journey from the tip of South America. It’s around a two-day sail from the...
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Honored as Accomplished Scientist 2018 AAAS Fellow - Dr. Maria VernetDecember 17, 2018A huge congratulations to Dr. Maria Vernet for being elected as AAAS Accomplished Scientist Fellow for 2018 Biological Sciences. The American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) is the largest general science organization in the United States, and publisher of the journal Science. AAAS has bestowed upon...
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Get to know Martina MascioniOctober 25, 2018How did you get involved working with FjordEco and FjordPhyto? I started working on marine Antarctic phytoplankton when I was in the third year of the Bachelor’s Degree, particularly with diatoms taxonomy. Two years went by and then when I got my degree I was told,...
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Biological Processes in Antarctic Ecosystems: AnT-ERA/SCAR spring course in ArgentinaSeptember 30, 2018by Martina Mascioni (FjordPhyto Scientist) This past week (23 - 29 September 2018) the spring course on “Biological Processes in Antarctic Ecosystems" took place in the city of Buenos Aires, Argentina. It was a course for graduate, PhD students, and post-docs whose research interests are related...
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Fjord Ecosystems - an introAugust 7, 2018Fjords. You know what they look like, but maybe you’ve never seen, much less said, the word. Let’s say it together: Fee-yor-d. The word fjord derives from the Old Norse fjǫrðr, used to describe a narrow inlet of the sea. Fjords were first studied extensively in Norway. Fjords are...
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In the Field with A21July 26, 2018https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zp6OFj6dqRY In December 2017, I flew down to Ushuaia, Argentina: the gateway city to Antarctica. I boarded the MS Hebridean Sky, a 296-foot cruise ship, and was warmly welcomed by FjordPhyto champions Bob Gilmore and Annette Bombosch. Antarctica21 had invited me to come on board as...
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A Scientist's Life: Dr. Maria VernetDecember 13, 2017Original story posted at Scripps News Explorations Now. Maria Vernet is an emeritus researcher in the Integrative Oceanography Division at Scripps Institution of Oceanography at the University of California San Diego. She earned a master’s degree in biological oceanography from the University of Washington in 1981...
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Scripps Oceanography to teach 'citizen scientists' in the wilds of AntarcticaDecember 5, 2017Reposted from San Diego Union Tribune By Gary Robbins A Scripps Institution of Oceanography graduate student making her second trip to Antarctica will lead ecotourists in taking phytoplankton samples from fjords in one of the most pristine environments on Earth. Allison Lee, a biological oceanographer, is scheduled to...
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Allison Lee Polar Phytoplankton PhD StudentNovember 30, 2017Interview reposted from Ocean Allison Podcast Episode #54, Allison Lee: Phytoplankton PhD Student. ^ Click the link above to listen to the podcast! Allison Lee is a biological oceanography PhD student at Scripps Institution of Oceanography, working to bring phytoplankton research to the world of Citizen Science in...
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We are in Iceland!October 10, 2017We have been invited to speak at the 2017 AECO/IAATO Polar Field Staff Conference in Iceland and engage the polar guide community in the wonders of phytoplankton research with FjordPhyto by the Vernet Lab. AECO - Association of Arctic Expedition Cruise Operators International Association of Antarctica Tour Operators - IAATO Allison...
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FjordPhyto receives support from the National Science FoundationSeptember 10, 2017We couldn't be more ecstatic to share the news that FjordPhyto has received funding support from the National Science Foundation! The Division of Polar Programs provided support for the first season of FjordPhyto (2017-2018) under a one-year Public Participation in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) Research...
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FjordPhyto presented to Scripps Institution of OceanographyJune 30, 2017Allison Lee presents FjordPhyto as her Capstone for the Master of Advanced Studies in Marine Biodiversity and Conservation at Scripps Institution of Oceanography. A huge shout out to her committee members Dr. Maria Vernet (Chair), Dr. George Watters, and the CMBC department for their guidance...
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FjordPhyto at CitSci2017May 21, 2017The FjordPhyto team, was thrilled to attend the Citizen Science Association Conference in St. Paul, Minnesota May 17th to 20th, 2017. CitSci2017 hosted a jam-packed event full of new ideas, shared hopes, and best practices for the emerging and growing international citizen science community. Multiple sessions touched on challenges...
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Polar Marine Science 2017 Gordon Research ConferenceApril 1, 2017If the people in that room didn't know the answer to the question, then nobody in the world knew the answer to the question. Now that is research at the frontier! ~Allison Lee The Vernet Lab attended the 2017 Gordon Research Conference (GRC) on Polar Marine Science ...