Anyone who's been on a research cruise will agree that transects blow. We just spent four days traveling around a section of the Costa Rica Dome taking water samples every three hours. Since there are three of us in our group (Joaquim, Ali, and I), we really couldn't work out shifts that allow more than 3-4 hours at a time. We just finished this morning!!! Now we start our cycle 2, which includes the 2 AM casts. Also, we are going to start incubations tonight as well. For those who don't know what that is, an incubation is basically taking a sample of water and separating it in its own container and adding certain trace metals to see what the limiting factors are.
On a separate note, there is a PhD student from Hawaii who brought a giant net to catch flying fish in...everyone thought there is no way it would ever work, but I took yet another stab at it last night and caught one!!! Definitely made my night. But when I went back to try again, I was reprimanded from one of the crew men for being too aggressive with the net, because he thought I would fall over. The pole is really big and I'm really small, so I guess watching me yield this pole would be a little concerning. Perhaps next time I'll tie my torso to the boat as well as the net so he will feel extra comfort....
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