Back to Alaska!
Hello from Barrow, Alaska! This is Victoria Baylor and Zac Tait, members of the Frischer lab at Skidaway Institute. We are here to collect our final summer season samples and… Read more »
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Erosion threatens Coastal Georgia archaeological sites
Along the Savannah River in Chatham County are the remains of a large, complex, former rice plantation. Archaeologists may be able to learn much about the life of Georgia’s early… Read more »
Global warming may mean big changes to marine ecosystems
As the Earth’s climate continues to warm, what kind of effects will we see in the ocean and the world in general? Seeking the answer to that broad question is… Read more »
Monday 2 May 2011 – Mystery Object
Today is another day of cleaning and packing. Before getting back to the packing job we decided to pack-up all our samples, get them into the dry liquid nitrogen shipper… Read more »
Sunday 1 May 2011 – Last Lab Day
Today was our last full lab day and the beginning of the end for this trip. After breakfast in the cafeteria, Zac and I began to purify bacterial messenger RNA… Read more »
Saturday April 30, 2010 – Last sampling day of the trip
With our new ice camp all set-up yesterday, this morning we were ready to go back out on the ice to collect our last set of samples for the trip.… Read more »
Friday April 29, 2011 – Moving Ice Camp
Today was another lab day, and although our special pipettes still hadn’t arrived we felt we had to go ahead and process our RNA samples. During our first trip to… Read more »
Thur 28 April 2011 – Back on the ice
After our relatively slow day in the lab, today we were back out on the ice collecting another set of samples. We returned to our ice camp that we had… Read more »
Thur 28 April 2011 – Back on the ice
After our relatively slow day in the lab, today we were back out on the ice collecting another set of samples. We returned to our ice camp that we had… Read more »
Wed 27 April 2011 – Lab Day
After yesterday’s first day on the ice, today was supposed to have been spent processing all the samples we collected. However, we forgot our special set of RNA-only pipettes and… Read more »