Life Beyond the Beaker

My job has changed in the last few months and my job title is now an Arctic and Sea going Technician! I am funded 50 % on the DIAPOD project with Prof. Dave Pond however, he's now moved to Stirling to work in their new lipid lab! So SAMs decided to keep me on as a technician. So on the last cruise up in the Arctic Debi and Rich trained me up in Winkler Titration which is a measurement of the oxygen concentration in sea water. Which brings me onto what I'm doing now... I have joined the OSNAP cruise to complete oxygen measurements. These are incredibly important data points as the measurements are being used to calibrate oceanographic moorings that have or will be at sea for 2 year down to depths of 2500 m. Cruise Prospectus OSNAP "East" Cruise R/V Neil Armstrong (July 1-30, 2018), Reykjavik to Reykjavik The specific objectives of this cruise are as follows (written by Stuart Cunningham, the principal investigator on the project): ...