So here we go again. Last time we left you hanging with the suspense of our night shifts. You were following the adventures of our brave team who decided to dedicate their health and rest to Science. Indeed we started running our experiments: the planning was to carry on 3 days and 3 nights of treatments. We then formed groups of 2 people for the night, and when we say ‘night’ it means that the first team was going in the water at 22:30 and Midnight, the second team was going at 2:00 and 4:30, and the 2 people remaining were getting up at 6:00 to retrieve all the equipment and prepare the next day’s experiment.
Think that would turn us crazy don’t you? Naaah, we are marine biologists aren’t we? Water is our element and we are also highly motivated by our topic. And the amazing landscape that we have here is helping (can you imagine the star gazing at 2:00 in the morning?).
Look how happy Captain Penguin is at being in this water, which is getting colder day by day!
As said previously (if you didn’t read them, check out the first two articles about this project :) ), we are now starting the analysis stage of our project, while still performing the experiments that are left. We are collecting pictures and videos all day and night long, we then have a lot of data, a lot of shots of our bait fish being eaten by the scavengers. We are analysing those videos to assess the abundance of the scavengers. Another advantage of having videos and time-lapse pictures is that we can perfectly see the succession of scavengers, as well as the the order in which the different fish’s body parts are eaten. Those are then really helpful and highly informative.
This is an example of the shots that we are analyzing. We can see crabs, shrimps and snails, which are the 3 main scavengers present.
Now the days are definitely really long and we do have a huge amount of work. Well, you know our team by now, even while working we are finding a way to have fun doing it.
TurtleWoman and Lady Porpoise are especially talented in turning working situations into funny moments, as you can see.
In any case this Summer School is all about giving us a taste of what being a marine researcher and what conducting scientific projects from scratch is like. So for master students like us, it is a really good training and really beneficial that we acquire those skills and work on them now. And talking about the fact that this is actually a course, we need to keep in mind that the end is getting closer and that we have a certain number of tasks and assessments to perform. The coming days will be entirely devoted to the processing of our data, our statistical analyses and the writing of our report. We need to reach the maximum of our efficiency during the next days, but we’ll manage, the ScAvengers never give up and never stop. We will still find time to keep you updated of course, thank you for following our adventures. As a reward, we’re leaving you with this picture of Lobo do Mar..
Well I think there’s not much need for comment is it?
Think that would turn us crazy don’t you? Naaah, we are marine biologists aren’t we? Water is our element and we are also highly motivated by our topic. And the amazing landscape that we have here is helping (can you imagine the star gazing at 2:00 in the morning?).
Look how happy Captain Penguin is at being in this water, which is getting colder day by day!
As said previously (if you didn’t read them, check out the first two articles about this project :) ), we are now starting the analysis stage of our project, while still performing the experiments that are left. We are collecting pictures and videos all day and night long, we then have a lot of data, a lot of shots of our bait fish being eaten by the scavengers. We are analysing those videos to assess the abundance of the scavengers. Another advantage of having videos and time-lapse pictures is that we can perfectly see the succession of scavengers, as well as the the order in which the different fish’s body parts are eaten. Those are then really helpful and highly informative.
This is an example of the shots that we are analyzing. We can see crabs, shrimps and snails, which are the 3 main scavengers present.
Now the days are definitely really long and we do have a huge amount of work. Well, you know our team by now, even while working we are finding a way to have fun doing it.
TurtleWoman and Lady Porpoise are especially talented in turning working situations into funny moments, as you can see.
In any case this Summer School is all about giving us a taste of what being a marine researcher and what conducting scientific projects from scratch is like. So for master students like us, it is a really good training and really beneficial that we acquire those skills and work on them now. And talking about the fact that this is actually a course, we need to keep in mind that the end is getting closer and that we have a certain number of tasks and assessments to perform. The coming days will be entirely devoted to the processing of our data, our statistical analyses and the writing of our report. We need to reach the maximum of our efficiency during the next days, but we’ll manage, the ScAvengers never give up and never stop. We will still find time to keep you updated of course, thank you for following our adventures. As a reward, we’re leaving you with this picture of Lobo do Mar..
Well I think there’s not much need for comment is it?
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