It has been seven days since I boarded the R/V Atlantis and everyday seems to be more eyeopening than the previous day. When I first arrived and boarded the ship, I didn’t know what to expect given my background as I am a Computer Science and Data Science major. This being my first expedition and […]
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Tricks of the R/V Atlantis (by Meg Siwak)
Today marks six days since we first stepped foot on the R/V Atlantis. I thought that by this point, I would have explored the ship sufficiently enough to have a solid understanding of what’s going on, but I find that I’m surprised by the Atlantis every day. I went out to stargaze with Willow the […]
The Unseen Side of Ocean Diversity (by Carly Ackerman)
Everybody knows that fish come in many shapes, sizes, and colors. But how many people know about the most abundant type of organism in the world? The ocean is home to a large subset of plankton called zooplankton. Planktonic animals are defined as those that cannot swim against an average current, as opposed to nekton, […]
