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CHASING EDDIES

"Why upon your first voyage as a passenger, did you yourself feel such a mystical vibration, when first told that you and your ship were now out of sight of land?" Herman Melville, Moby Dick

Diazotrophs: The ocean’s natural fertilizers

Similar to the human body that contains trillions of microbial cells that help us with our metabolic functions and health, marine...

Dec 8, 20222 min read

Everything works out

This blog post is meant to be an acknowledgment of everyone’s work. It is when you have the best team of people that responsibility...

Dec 8, 20222 min read

Organic matter: does size matter?

The Bentayga is an eddy that rotates clockwise, which affects how the organic matter produced and used by organisms that inhabit the...

Dec 7, 20222 min read

KUN-YU

Hay un término japonés que me gusta mucho tener presente y que aprendí en mis años de práctica del karate que se llama KUN-YU, y viene a...

Dec 6, 20224 min read

Deciphering Eddy Bentayga

At the base of Roque Bentayga, in Gran Canaria, rock art impressions are preserved in the libyco-berber alphabet, indicating the origin...

Dec 5, 20222 min read

Vitamins in Eddies

B-vitamins you may find in your vitamin supplements (cobalamin B12, biotin B7, pyridoxin B6, riboflavin B2, thiamin B1) are important for...

Dec 2, 20222 min read

Big tiny plankton: sailing through diversity

Mr. Lawrence showing an example of a microscope image taken onboard the e-IMPACT cruise (Image font: Sheldon J. Plankton character from...

Nov 28, 20222 min read

Proxies to elucidate an eddie's life history

An essential part of studying eddies is their biogeochemical characterization. Thanks to the high resolution of this study, we’re able to...

Nov 27, 20222 min read

The first sampling

On November 16, we began the first sampling of the cruise, beginning with a time series to study the center of the eddy for 24 hours. We...

Nov 25, 20223 min read

Understanding the eddies

We are south of the Canary Islands to study eddies, which are a phenomenon that consists of circular currents of water propagating...

Nov 22, 20222 min read

Comprendiendo los remolinos

Nos encontramos al sur de las Islas Canarias para estudiar los remolinos, que son un fenómeno que consiste en cuerpos de agua que giran...

Nov 22, 20222 min read

The Effort Before Science

Planning a scientific cruise, we scientists have high expectations of how the month ahead should be. Little time margin is included for...

Nov 20, 20222 min read

A swirling adventure begins!

A happy tone bursts from the loudspeaker on board of the research vessel Sarmiento de Gamboa, announcing our departure from port: The...

First Scientific Cruise

Ianna Luna

Jul 29, 20222 min read

Biological Oceanography
in a Changing Ocean