(This is a yeddi crab that was brought by Alvin's dive this morning)
(Me at 5:00am in the morning after a long day)
(Good night)
(Me at 5:00am in the morning after a long day)
(Good night)
After the cores come up, they are stored in the cooler to help preservation. They are then taken to our lab for further evaluation, sampling, and storage.
We slice .5 and 1 cm sections of each core for processing. Who says you can't paid for playing in the mud.
The Title of the research is: Structure, Function, and Evolution of Authigenic, Methane-Derived Carbonate Ecosystems......Chief Scientist is Dr. Lisa Levin, UCSD
Authigenic carbonate precipitation associated with methane seepage is typicallyby anaerobic oxidation of methane (AOM). This microbial process produces massive amounts of carbonate rock, introducing habitat heterogenity to continental margins and providing a major repository for methane derived carbon released from the sea floor. We are investigating the extent to which these carbonate substrates form a distinct ecosystem within the seep environment by characterizing associated microbial, foraminiferal, macrofaunal and megafaunal communities in a successful context.