~This post was written last Friday, but I was interrupted before I got to upload the pictures~
Today was a nice change from my normal day at uni- mostly because it wasn't actually spent at uni. Rather than a full day of lectures and practicles my Aquatic Botany course decided to take us for a full day of 'messing about on the river'.
We got on the 'Jeremiah Ryan' at 9:00am at the Hobart Wharf. We turned the vessel into a floating lab, stopping at four sites (Cornelian Bay, Sullivans Cove, Northwest Bay, and the Iron Pot) and measuring the temperature, salinity, and oxygen at depth increments as well as collecting water samples to analyse chlorophyll contents back at the lab, the light penetration of the water, and collecting samples of the phytoplankton to identify the species compositions and productivity of the phytoplankton at each of the sites. All though we spent the entire day doing these samples and measurements it really just felt like we were messing about on the river (Derwent that is)- especially when we were watching the seals lying back at the surface sunbaking with there flippers streached out.
Me and Tori- Tori is only looking a little bit green at this stage.
"Kermit" showing some students how to use a plankton net.
A random guy from my class-I just really liked the way it looked like he's hovering over the water.
A nice friendly lighthouse we parked next to.
1 comment:
We had such a good wind in the willows kind of day (with the exception of me turning green). I wonder if Kermit and the muppet will stumble upon this one day and realise that they have nicknames. I wonder if any of our lecturers have heard us calling them things like the leprechaun etc.
Going to continue reading your blog now.
Tori
Post a Comment