Science team and ASC staff Now that we are done, I want to take a few minutes to look over where we went, the fabulous samples we collected along the way, and the work that lies ahead of us. We completed 15 Stations with 17 CTD casts, 18 TM pump deployments, 17 McLane pump casts, 21 Megacore deployments, 14 Gravity cores, 3 JGCs, 3.1 JPCs, and 2 large volume grow out experiments. That amounts to 32.115 m of sediment, 3460 L of water, and millions of particles. We isolated ~16

Hi everyone! I'm Ivia, and I’m your guest blogger today. I'm French, and I'm here to sample seawater, sediments, and what we called pore water to study the silicon cycle and silicon isotopes in this amazing Southern Ocean. I'm taking samples mainly from the rosette of Niskin bottles lowered with the CTD and the megacorer , and I’ll analyze everything in our lab in California. Now that you know a lot about phytoplankton and diatoms, I can tell you a little more about how we c