Here we are getting the Trace Metal CTD ready to deploy in the water. We have to put the gray niskin bottles on right before we put it in the water because we want to keep them as clean as possible with no metal contamination! I am in the yellow hardhat, grad student Angel Ruacho is in the black hardhat, and our leader, Kathy Barbeau, is in the red hardhat.
Here’s the deck of our ship, the R/V Sikuliaq. The green arrow is pointing to the “Trace Metal Clean Van” –it’s not really a van, but there are two rooms inside where we keep our bottles and do our filtering. The yellow arrow is pointing to our trace metal CTD. We have to keep it covered when we’re not using it so it doesn’t get dirty.
A boat sampling on the lakes.
A note from the microbes.
Sparkling Lake.
The SBC-LTER boat is launched via a large hoist on the Goleta Pier
An exceptional day in the Santa Barbara Channel.
Figure 3. Our team of strong ecologists carrying up the transplants on a stretcher!
Figure 2. Increasing summer temperature trends at Niwot Ridge. Shown are lines from linear regression (red) and a loess function (blue).
Figure 1. View of the Niwot Ridge LTER Site in the Rocky Mountains, Colorado, USA.
