In just two days i'll be headed to Juneau to join Bob, Jennifer and Christian on our third sampling cruise of the year long Tracy Arm coral time-series. Myself and lab technician Christian secured additional funding from National Geographic/Waitt Foundation to join this NOAA funded project to collect more samples for SEM and TEM analysis, as well as look for brooded larvae on live samples. I head out a few days earlier than Christian so will be flying to Alaska on wednesday - equipment gathered and ordered, and the boxes are mostly packed and ready to go.
We won't be able to update this blog during the field days unfortunately, as where we're going there is no internet, no phone, and few people - but in this coming week we'll be getting the boat ready, doing check out dives, preparing chemicals and collecting equipment, and as soon as we get back in range we'll let you know how it went! So stay tuned!
Dr. W.
