I vlogged my college fieldwork trip to the Phoenix Islands Protected Area

By dhahn ()

What’s it like to spend six weeks at sea in the remote Pacific Ocean, where the closest human beings (besides your shipmates) are the astronauts in orbit on the International Space Station? Earlier this year, Boston University College of Arts [...]& Sciences undergraduate researcher Allie Cole (CAS’21), a marine science major, got the chance to find out. Traveling to the Phoenix Islands Protected Area (PIPA), Cole spent six weeks aboard the scientific vessel "Robert C. Seamans," collecting samples of microscopic marine life such as phytoplankton, zooplankton, and larval fish across 3,000 nautical miles of the Pacific Ocean. Her samples and data analysis will contribute to a 10-year-long study of how larval marine life are distributed across the remote Phoenix Islands Protected Area lead by the Randi Rotjan Marine Ecology Lab at Boston University.

Watch Cole’s video blog above, and check out her account of the trip "by the numbers" on Boston University's research magazine, The Brink: /articles/2019/phoenix-islands-fieldwork-vlog/
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