GOING FOR THE KRILL—A major focus of the GLOBEC winter cruises to the Southern Ocean was a shrimp-like crustacean called krill, a crucial link in the food chain that supports the thriving community of life around Antarctica. Researchers studied them in a variety of ways. Kendra Daly (right), Kerri Scolardi (middle), and Jason Zimmerman aboard the Palmer deploy a Tucker trawl to catch live krill for experimental studies to measure krill's rates of feeding, growth, and respiration. (Photo by Peter Wiebe, WHOI)[back]
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