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Although 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 setting foot in Antarctica was growing. In addition, during the pandemic years, the complication of …
Who 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 in epidemiology. I’m currently doing independent research on methane production in the water column …
We 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, Eight citizen science projects out of 67 submitted proposals were awarded NASA funding in …
by 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 to Antarctic ecosystems. Students from South America — Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Peru, and Colombia …
Fjords. 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 steep walled u-shaped valleys that were carved and modified by glaciers long …
If 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 March 26 – 31, 2017 in Ventura, California. GRC are prestigious international scientific conferences that …