Bluefin Larvae in Oligotrophic Ocean Foodwebs, Investigations of Nutrients to Zooplankton
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March 11, 2022BLOOFINZ is a project funded by the US National Science Foundation (NSF) that is designed to investigate many inter-related aspects of the ocean habitat supporting larvae of Southern Bluefin Tuna in the eastern Indian Ocean. The field portion of BLOOFINZ is being conducted during February... -
March 10, 2022We meant to do a better job of maintaining current posts and progress reports, but good intentions fell to the wayside due to early circumstances and the pace of activities once things got started. If you are reading this post, you are catching us in...
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March 10, 2022Science Plan, Operations and Outcomes The BLOOFINZ science plan From the start, BLOOFINZ took an “adaptive” strategy, meaning that there was not a pre-determined design of sampling locations, just a general concept of what would be done at locations determined by environmental conditions at the time. Tuna...
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March 10, 2022What is it like to be on the ocean? Is it really like living on a roller coaster for months? Is it much fun? I am Opeyemi Kehinde, a second-year master’s student of oceanography at the Florida State University in Dr. Stukel’s lab. I study the...
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March 10, 2022Hello! I’m Christian Fender, a 4th year PhD student in the FSU Plankton Ecology Lab. In one of our previous posts, we shared a little about the variety of drifting arrays we’ve deployed over the course of the BLOOFINZ cruise, with special attention to the...
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March 10, 2022We are Shuai Gu and Ariana de Souza, from the Cassar Lab of the Earth and Climate Sciences Department at Duke University. We joined the BLOOFINZ cruise in order to collect biological nitrogen fixation data in this eastern Indian Ocean region, where no field measurements...
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March 10, 2022Hi! My name is Natalie Yingling and I am a 4th year Ph.D. student in Dr. Mike Stukel’s lab at Florida State University. The BLOOFINZ cruise is my 5th research cruise, the longest and hottest, since coming to FSU. One of the things I love...
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March 10, 2022Hi, Estrella Malca, Alejandro Jivanjee, Lynnath Beckley My name is Alejandro Jivanjee, I'm a Masters student at the University of Miami in Marine Biology and Ecology. I have had the great privilege of working closely with Estrella Malca for the last year for an internship supported by...
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March 10, 2022In 2017 I was approached by Mike Stukel and Mike Landry to be part of the BLOOFINZ project. Without hesitation I agreed – little did I know…. I am originally from Germany but my roots are now in the Sunshine State of Florida where I lead...
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March 9, 2022Quel voyage ! I’ve got the chance to join the BLOOFINZ cruise, my second cruise onboard R/V Revelle, but because of covid and travel restrictions, making it to the ship was never certain until I actually moved onboard. After having to change my flight in...
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March 9, 2022From FSU to the India ocean, I Jared Rose am here to measure the N2 fixation within the Argo Basin. All biological life requires nitrogen in order survive but unfortunately for the organisms that live here the region is oligotrophic which means there is very...
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March 8, 2022Southern bluefin tuna. Illustration by AK, a talented crew member of the R/V Revelle Why is tuna research important? Although southern bluefin tuna (SBT) are certainly prized in the culinary world, they are also vastly valued in the commercial industry. Unfortunately, as a result, SBT are...
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March 8, 2022“Under the sea, under the sea…everything is better”. Ariel had it right, and some would dare to say zooplankton agree. Yet under the sea is where they are harder to study. As sea-faring zooplankton ecologists, we have figured out a way to bring our zoop...
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March 8, 2022The FSU Plankton Ecology Lab is out in force on this cruise, with Dr. Stukel leading a team of three grad students (Natalie Yingling, Christian Fender, and Opeyemi Kehinde). Our goal is to understand the interactions between marine organisms and global carbon and nitrogen cycles...
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March 8, 2022Phytoplankton, the single-celled plants of the sea, are the basis of the oceanic food web – and every organism that lives in the sea ultimately depends upon the photosynthesis of phytoplankton to survive! This includes the Southern Bluefin Tuna – while their first feeding stages...
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March 8, 2022The Twitter plankton artwork (A, B, C) that got me on the research vessel Roger Revelle (D)! My name is Claudia Traboni, I’m a PhD student in marine plankton ecology. I was born in Italy but I have spent the years of my doctoral training working...
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March 8, 2022I often brag about sailing on several research cruises and in several oceans. I take pride in calling myself a “veteran” of the seas, a distinction that affords one the confidence of being able to work effortlessly on board any research vessel, however challenging the...
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March 8, 2022I came on this voyage to help put the Z in BLOOFINZ. Our long-term plankton surveys in Australia use the Continuous Plankton Recorder (CPR) to cover large spatial and temporal scales around the coastline of Australia, and a Heron drop net for monthly sampling at...
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March 8, 2022We are Dr. José María Quintanilla and Dr. Raúl Laiz Carrión, researchers from the Fish Larval Ecology group at the Málaga Oceanographic Center, Spanish Institute of Oceanography (IEO-CSIC) integrated within the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC). During the past decade, our group focused on trophic...