Tag: Kristen
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Pursuing Plankton
Every few kilometers we stop the ship to put our zooplankton net in the water. We want to see what kind of zooplankton (the main food for Xantus’ murrelets and Cassin’s auklets) there is in the top 50 meters of the water. In order to calculate how much water the net filters, we have a…
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In Search of the Xantus’ Murrelet
The most important part of our study was counting seabirds and marine mammals around Santa Barbara Island. We repeated surveys along the transect lines originally done by G.L. Hunt, Jr. in 1976. Whenever the boat was underway, we recorded all seabirds within 200m of our boat. To determine where 200m was, we used trigonometry—measurements of…
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Sagehens at Sea!
On April 24th, Kristen’10 and I boarded the R/V Shearwater to begin oceanographic surveys around Santa Barabara Island. The R/V Shearwater is the research vessel of the Channel Islands National Marine Sanctuary. The purpose of this project is to assess the seabird distributions around Santa Barbara Island and the physical propoerties of the ocean as well…