Happy Halloween!
This morning some very
enthusiastic members of the lab got up at 5:00 am to do the first
plankton tows of the cruise. We are not yet in the region of primary
research interest but it is a good idea to do a preliminary run
through of all planned procedures. Doing this ensures a smooth
start at our first official station. The tows were
done using a 1.0 mm mesh net to collect microplankton and a 20
micron mesh net to collect nanoplankton. There were a lot of interesting
protists and some copepods too. Everyone was very excited because
this group has a passion for protists. We will be
doing many more plankton tows and
posting a lot of cool protist photos.
However, today our photos are
celebrating the Halloween holiday.
In the evening we had
a festive party complete with decorations, orange Oreos©
and plenty of candy. There were several scary costumes. However,
the bad jokes in Young Frankinstein (the Halloween feature movie)
were the scariest things of the night. It was a fun night with
many scientifically inspired costumes. Can you guess what these
researchers are?
Answers are below.
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3.etallegalfonid 4.tsitneics
