IMBRSea Joint School - Adventures at the Swedish Coast

Hello everyone, so here is our last post about our Swedish scientific project on scavenging activity. Here are the answers to all your questions, the clues to solve the mystery, the revelations that you were all expecting. I mean, no, not exactly, that’s not how science is done. First we can’t give an absolute answer to any question mostly, and we do not answer such broad topics in 10 days. So here we are for the last breakfast in this amazing place, today is presentations’ day. We’re holding on to the amazing sunset pictures we took all week to give us some strength. We managed to finalyse our analysis and hand in our report (right on the last second actually). Our results and observations from the experiments show that the scavenging activity is higher during the night than during the day, in terms of rate of the process, it goes much faster. Almost every morning, when we retrieved the night’s experiment, there would be nothing left of the bait on the quadrat. This result was ...

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 previo...

Another day is rising over the gorgeous bay of Tjärnö. Breakfast view is really nice and motivating for a working day…  Well okay, so now the time for fun, leisure and happiness of being reunited with our friends has passed. Now it is work time. After brainstorms and plenty of changes (we couldn’t count how many times we changed our minds), we finally decided on a plan for our experiment! The pilot studies were run because we wanted to test all the equipment that we had built, make sure our controls were working and everything was fine. This was the time our brave team had to get rid of clothes and make the great plunge for knowledge. Lobo do Mar was really happy to get back into his favorite  environment. On this  picture  you can see him checking the bait of our experiment. The pilot turned out really fine and we were really glad and excited to see that our setting was yielding good results and our equipment proved to merit all the efforts we p...

Just had dinner and you’re still hungry? Want some leftovers? Well if you can answer ‘yes’ to both of those questions, you might be a scavenger... Good for you, we’re going to be focused on that topic for the next 10 days, we are Team 8, the ScAvengers of the IMBRSea Joint School 2018. So we’ll probably be able to tell you more about your condition at the end of our research.. Our project’s aim is to characterise the scavenging activity in the Bay of Tjärnö, Sweden. For this, we are based at the beautiful Sven Loven Marine Centre. Collecting and preparing the equipment we need will for sure be a great opportunity for us to express our creativity and inventiveness (pictures are coming...). We are now three days into the joint school. The first day of work was dedicated to extreme brainstorming about what to do, the experimental design, what type of work we wanted to carry out and so on. It was very intense. We made up our minds on the way to set the baits in the water to discover wha...

Just had dinner and you’re still hungry? Want some leftovers? Well if you can answer ‘yes’ to both of those questions, you might be a scavenger... Good for you, we’re going to be focused on that topic for the next 10 days, we are Team 8, the ScAvengers of the IMBRSea Joint School 2018. So we’ll probably be able to tell you more about your condition at the end of our research.. Our project’s aim is to characterise the scavenging activity in the Bay of Tjärnö, Sweden. For this, we are based at the beautiful Sven Loven Marine Centre. Collecting and preparing the equipment we need will for sure be a great opportunity for us to express our creativity and inventiveness (pictures are coming...). We are now three days into the joint school. The first day of work was dedicated to extreme brainstorming about what to do, the experimental design, what type of work we wanted to carry out and so on. It was very intense. We made up our minds on the way to set the baits in the water to discover wha...