I will be finding a jersey next summer....

"....the blast blasted blubber beyond all believable bounds".....

That's poetry right there...

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agreed 10000%. I spent an amazing season diving at Palmer and I've spent over one year at sea on the NBP and LMG....both are integral and essential.

AND this is me being personally selfish for the science....Im even more upset that there are SO MANY crew, marine techs, and other employees who are sitting in a massively unknown future. They work SO HARD for us 'beakers' to make the science work and now this....THEY deserve better.

Rumors are flying that they will borrow certain other vessels (one from Alaska....) will that work? Will it be as good? absolutely not. Not when we USED to have two dedicated vessels.....will there be anything besides a transport ship to get things to/from Palmer station....etc. Its heartbreaking.

I can hear the song in my head….then the lights exploding….amazing movie moment. He was amazing.

multiple small(er) samples can work too!....you can always pool the DNA during the extraction phase!

yeah...thats not going to be realistic. It always depends on what's in the water....particulates can plug them quickly sometimes. 5L is a lot in that short period of time. I'd say test it out to see....you can estimate 30min but don't be surprised with 1-2h sometimes.

I use 0.22 micron sterivex filters....its slow filtering most days, but they seem to work. There are papers out there that test pore size, but the flexibility isn't in the filter cartridges unfortunately....so we use what's available.