A few snapshots from field work, outreach & teaching
OCB meta-eukomics hackathon in Savannah GA
SkIO intern Felipe Quintana presents his summer projects at the Sapelo Summer Symposium. Summer 2024
Lab! Summer 2024
Adrian Marchetti visits SkIO! April 2024
Lucy Quirk successfully defends her MS thesis!! March 2024.
Lucy presenting her MS research during her defense. March 2024. Photo by Jay Brandes
Claire taking a mixotrophy break during a research cruise by enjoying a joyride off of the Azores Islands. Summer 2023
Cohen Lab July 2023! Top row: MS student Lucy Quirk, MS student Mallory Mintz, Ph.D student Claire Cook. Bottom row: Natalie, Savannah State University REU student Lavon Young, SkIO summer intern Neha Shah
Daily estuary sampling over the summer months! Mallory collects dissolved oxygen, salinity, temperature, turbidity, pH, and chlorophyll a fluorescence with a YSI Sonde. Summer 2023
Mallory discusses the drivers of harmful algal blooms, their societal impact, and her role up close and personal with them to a very curious audience during the Marine Extension & GA Sea Grant "Saltwater Science Speaker Series". July 2023
Mallory introduces plankton to summer campers at Marine Extension & Georgia Sea Grant. Summer 2023
Lucy presents her MS research at the ASLO conference in Mallorca, Spain! June 2023
Claire samples for mixotrophy in the California Current System on PUPCYCLE 2! June 2023
Outdoor cubitainer team
Flow cytometer breaks, chaos ensues :( The amazing crew fixed it! Photo credit: Miriam Sutton
Claire monitoring CTD data onboard the RV Sally Ride
UGA Carpentries workshop led by Claire and Lucy at Skidaway Institute. May 2023
Nicole Millette visits SkIO to set up mixotroph ingestion experiments with Claire! All smiles in the clean room.
Skidaway Island Marine Science Day 2022: Claire and Lucy explaining the importance of phytoplankton to visitors on the RV Savannah
Skidaway Island Marine Science Day 2022
Skidaway Island Marine Science Day 2022
Skidaway Island Marine Science Day 2022
Lab group Summer 2022
Testing a mixotrophy method with SkIO interns onboard the RV Savannah - June 2022
Aki and John firing niskins
Everyone busy processing samples in the ship lab :)
Grad student retention event (retreat) May 2022! Photo from Sara Rivero Calle
Nutrient amendment incubations incubating on deck!
Lucy and Natalie taking a mini break to be seasick during trace metal clean sampling pump setup as Kyle and Morgan recover the CTD :')
CTD deployment! Photo from Sara Rivero Calle
Sara and Kyle testing out a new radiometry instrument
Sara is very excited to filter lots of seawater
Lucy and Arianna admiring the bubble they created
Arianna Krinos helps out with incubation experiments
The second trace metal clean bubble ever built on the RV Savannah!
Masud tries on the immersion suit as Kyle is entertained
RV Savannah cruise in March 2022!
Best part about being at sea: endless sunrises and sunsets
Masud and Kadir assisting with the CTD!
Masud, Lucy and Rachel filtering seawater in the lab
Flow through incubator on deck
Setting up nutrient treatments
Lucy filling cubitainers! Clean seawater is pumped directly from the seawater surface into the bubble sink
Bubble construction - Lucy is a pro!
Morgan and Natalie attaching the trace metal clean hose weighted down with vinyl-coated dive weights to a synthetic rope that is lowered to ~10m. The other of the hose is attached to a teflon diaphragm pump. Photo by Sara Rivero-Calle
Setting up a trace metal clean surface pumping system!
Sara seamlessly models the immersion suit
A short research cruise in Sept. 2021 to the South Atlantic Bight to assess for iron stress in phytoplankton communities. A lovely science crew :)
Lab group July 2021!
Heading out to the South Atlantic Bight on the R/V Savannah!
Trace metal clean sampling rosette, sans niskins
June 2019 North Atlantic cruise from BATS to Woods Hole
Dropping buckets off the side of the ship to figure out what in the world those beautiful shimmers were in the surface ocean. We figured it out: they were a type of zooplankton called sea sapphires!
A group chat onboard the R/V Atlantic Explorer after deploying Clio
Clio being lowered into the ocean on the A-frame - a delicate operation led by the BATS/Clio teams
Clio deployed and getting ready to sample seawater vertically in the water column, completely untethered from the ship!
Clio!
June 2019 BATS scientists and crew on the R/V Atlantic Explorer after the first successful section was completed by the new AUV Clio (yellow refrigerator-looking robot in the back)
R/V Atlantis docked in San Juan following a cruise across the North Atlantic
PEP summer class cruise onboard the SSV Corwith Cramer in Vineyard Sound!
Welcoming the Tara in Lorient home after the two year Tara Pacific journey
Woods Hole, MA
Exploring Moorea after the PMT Geotraces cruise with Saito lab member, Becca Chmiel
Catching some beautiful views after the 2017 ASLO conference in Hawaii
2017 "Near Shores and Oceans" Duke TIP class on a field trip to a nearby barrier island
Duke TIP participant in the 2017 Near Shores and Oceans summer course
The 2015 IRNBRU crew onboard the R/V Melville off the coast of California
The CCGS John P. Tully as seen by Zodiac raft
The Canadian Coast Guard Ship John P. Tully docked in Victoria before the June Line P cruise
Attaching a sampling system to the winch line for pumping up trace metal clean surface seawater, on the June 2015 Line P cruise in the Northeast Pacific Ocean
2014 Galapagos cruise onboard the National Park vessel, Guadalupe River
Carly Moreno and Natalie sampling seawater in the Galapagos
Exploring Maui after the Ocean Sciences Conference in Honolulu!
Science crew of DolMicrobe6 on the R/V Savannah! Photo credit: Sara Rivero-Calle
Adam Greer deep in thought with the CTD
June 2019 North Atlantic cruise from BATS to Woods Hole