{"id":3894,"date":"2011-03-29T09:14:34","date_gmt":"2011-03-29T17:14:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mlmlblog.wordpress.com\/?p=3894"},"modified":"2011-03-29T09:14:34","modified_gmt":"2011-03-29T17:14:34","slug":"bottle-it-up-taking-genetic-samples-at-sea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/student-life\/2011\/03\/29\/bottle-it-up-taking-genetic-samples-at-sea\/","title":{"rendered":"Bottle It Up: Taking Genetic Samples at Sea"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_3896\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3896\" style=\"width: 450px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/student-life\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/75\/2011\/03\/coral-vials-21.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3896\" title=\"Coral Vials 2\" src=\"https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/student-life\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/75\/2011\/03\/coral-vials-21.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"337\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/student-life\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/75\/2011\/03\/coral-vials-21.jpg 640w, https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/student-life\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/75\/2011\/03\/coral-vials-21-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3896\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">photo: E. Loury<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_206\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-206\" style=\"width: 112px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/student-life\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/75\/2008\/08\/erin-with-fish12.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-206\" title=\"Erin Loury\" src=\"https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/student-life\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/75\/2008\/08\/erin-with-fish12.jpg?w=112\" alt=\"\" width=\"112\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-206\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Erin Loury<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>by <a title=\"Erin\u00a0Loury\" href=\"https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/student-life\/students\/erin-loury\/\">Erin Loury<\/a>, Ichthyology Lab<\/p>\n<p>Field surveys are often a collection blitz for scientists \u2013 we spend a brief, intense period of time out in nature gathering up samples to analyze back at the lab during\u00a0 the rest of the year (or for many years to come&#8230;).\u00a0 My 10 days on a trawl survey with the National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) were a flurry of activity \u2013 each time the net came up, we recorded all kinds of information about our catch (what species we caught, how many of each kind, etc.), then bagged up requested specimens for researchers at MLML and NMFS to study.<\/p>\n<p>We collected small pieces of deepsea corals (<a title=\"Whip it\u00a0Good\" href=\"https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/student-life\/2011\/02\/19\/whip-it-good\/\">such as the sea whip I posted about earlier<\/a>) for NMFS scientists to use for genetic analysis.\u00a0 We stored the samples in vials of ethanol to preserve them.\u00a0 Labeling and inventorying each vial was good practice in learning to stay organized on a messy, chaotic fishing boat!<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_3898\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3898\" style=\"width: 450px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/student-life\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/75\/2011\/03\/coral-vials.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3898\" title=\"Coral Vials\" src=\"https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/student-life\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/75\/2011\/03\/coral-vials.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"337\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/student-life\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/75\/2011\/03\/coral-vials.jpg 640w, https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/student-life\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/75\/2011\/03\/coral-vials-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3898\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">photo: E. Loury<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Erin Loury, Ichthyology Lab Field surveys are often a collection blitz for scientists \u2013 we spend a brief, intense period of time out in nature gathering up samples to analyze back at the lab during\u00a0 the rest of the year (or for many years to come&#8230;).\u00a0 My 10 days on a trawl survey with [&hellip;]<\/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":[],"class_list":["post-3894","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"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\/3894","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=3894"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/student-life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3894\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/student-life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3894"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/student-life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3894"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/student-life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3894"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}