{"id":1623,"date":"2009-09-29T09:44:00","date_gmt":"2009-09-29T17:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mlmlblog.wordpress.com\/?p=1623"},"modified":"2009-09-29T09:44:00","modified_gmt":"2009-09-29T17:44:00","slug":"bumpy-bering-sea-summer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/student-life\/2009\/09\/29\/bumpy-bering-sea-summer\/","title":{"rendered":"Bumpy Bering Sea Summer"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Don\u2019t trust that twinkle in Jacques Cousteau\u2019s eye!<\/p>\n

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Jacques Cousteau<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Photo: Amanda M.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

And, don’t be fooled by the idyllic photo that my friend Amanda M. took at her field site on Palmyra Atoll\u2026<\/p>\n

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I\u2019m here to remind everyone that Marine Science is not always bikinis, cocktails, warm sand, and sunsets.<\/p>\n

(hmmm\u2026 should I have read the fine print before signing up?\u00a0 Shelby, do you need a field assistant in Panama?).<\/p>\n

There is much to be studied in the cooler latitudes, and the abundance of marine birds and mammals truly defies description.<\/p>\n

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Photo: NOAA \/ NMML<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Perhaps the greatest challenge in working at high latitudes is the weather.\u00a0 Specifically, what the weather can do to you while you’re working on the ocean!<\/p>\n

Research time at sea is always an adventure, and usually it is a grand and engaging one at that.\u00a0 But it can also be tiring, physically uncomfortable, and monotonous… or even a little too thrilling!\u00a0 A friend of mine that sails frequently describes long ocean crossings as \u201cdays of boredom interrupted by moments of absolute terror\u201d.<\/p>\n

This summer I spent another 28 days out on the Bering Sea, studying the foraging ecology of seabirds and fur seals.\u00a0 This was the second and final summer of data collection for my thesis work, which is funded as a component of the North Pacific Research Board\u2019s Patch Dynamics Study http:\/\/bsierp.nprb.org\/focal\/patch.html<\/a>.<\/p>\n

I spent my time on the contracted vessel R\/V Gold Rush, which is a 99\u2019 trawler that spends most every day of the year working in the Gulf of Alaska and Bering Seas.<\/p>\n

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Photo: L. Whitman<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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As you might expect, this ship is sturdy, well-maintained, and operated by a very skilled and competent crew.\u00a0 Nonetheless we did encounter some ocean conditions that slowed our progress and reminded us just how small we were\u2026<\/p>\n

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Nate Jones<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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Don\u2019t trust that twinkle in Jacques Cousteau\u2019s eye! And, don’t be fooled by the idyllic photo that my friend Amanda M. took at her field site on Palmyra Atoll\u2026 I\u2019m here to remind everyone that Marine Science is not always bikinis, cocktails, warm sand, and sunsets. (hmmm\u2026 should I have read the fine print before […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":291,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[258,310],"class_list":["post-1623","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-seabirds","tag-vertebrate-ecology-lab"],"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"MLML Student Life","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/student-life","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/student-life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1623","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/student-life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/student-life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/student-life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/291"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/student-life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1623"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/student-life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1623\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/student-life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1623"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/student-life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1623"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/student-life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1623"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}