We are enjoying ... your filtering poetry and research updates from sea.
Best of luck to you, the Vardi team, (the whales) and the whole project from the American Committee for the Weizmann Institute of Science in New York.
On the 15th of June 2012 we will embark on a 30 day research cruise from the Azores Islands to Iceland, searching for the coccolithophore Emiliania huxleyi, and the virus that infects it. We will be on board the R/V Knorr (http://www.whoi.edu/page.do?pid=8157), a "floating lab", sampling and running experiments to investigate the trophic level interactions in the oceans, and how the chemical communication between the various microbes in the water body can shape the entire environment.
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Robbie Siben
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Interesting information. I like the photos. Keep workin!