Archive for August 2017
Unraveling earth’s natural time capsules – The GeoChronR workshop
By Lizzie Wallace The Arizona Shuttle rolls up to Flagstaff, Arizona, quite a different scene from the miles and miles of barren desert I’ve been riding through on my travel from the Phoenix Skyharbor International Airport to Northern Arizona University (NAU). At 7000 ft, Flagstaff is a cool 70 degrees surrounded by trees, mountains and…
Read MoreA day in the life in St. John, USVI: Harvesting larval reef fish and coral reef seawater microbes
Written By: Laura Weber About the author: Laura Weber is a PhD candidate in Biological Oceanography in the Massachusetts Institute of Technology – Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (MIT-WHOI) Joint program. She is a member of the Apprill lab at WHOI and studies microbial (bacteria and archaea) interactions in coral reef ecosystems to get a better…
Read MoreDay in the life blog series – What’s it’s really like to be a Ph.D. Student
Graduate students can be somewhat mysterious creatures, haunting labs in the wee hours of the night, or disappearing for months on end to venture to some faraway place, collecting data and samples of critters that they’ll struggle to pronounce after a few days of sleep-deprived night watches aboard a ship. There are no graduate student…
Read MoreA glider’s journey in the Gulf Stream
Written by Joleen Heiderich We are cruising towards the open ocean in a small towboat while the Miami skyline is shrinking in the distance behind us. For Captain Pete, this short trip will be a change from his daily routine. Instead of towing boats, he will help two scientists with the deployment of an instrument…
Read MoreIntroducing the new JP-student blog!
You probably want to start your own blog and share all your adventures, breakthroughs, mishaps, and sometimes sheer frustration with the world, right? Yet, the thought of setting up a website, having to fight with yet another computer language, and be witty and charming on semi-regular basis on top of all your research duties pretty…
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