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 »
Research
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 »
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 »
Tuesday 26 April 2011 – Ice Camp! First Sampling Day.
Finally, the labs are set-up (took most of yesterday), all our gear is clean, organized, and ready for use, and was a sunny (almost 19 hours worth) and not too… Read more »
24 April 2011 – Easter Sunday Setting up
Sleeping was tough last night as our bodies are still adjusting to all the sunlight. Despite being so tired I think both Zac and I had a hard time sleeping… Read more »