{"id":3503,"date":"2016-08-08T14:53:19","date_gmt":"2016-08-08T14:53:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.marine.usf.edu\/c-image\/?p=3503"},"modified":"2016-08-08T14:53:19","modified_gmt":"2016-08-08T14:53:19","slug":"r-v-weatherbird-log-greta-helmueller","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.marine.usf.edu\/c-image\/r-v-weatherbird-log-greta-helmueller\/","title":{"rendered":"R\/V Weatherbird Log-Greta Helmueller"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" size-full wp-image-3501\" src=\"https:\/\/www.marine.usf.edu\/c-image\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/AJHelmueller-herdte_20160808-145704_1.JPG\" alt=\"AJHelmueller-herdte_20160808-145704_1.JPG\" width=\"4385\" height=\"3289\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Hello! My name is Greta, and I am an incoming master\u2019s student at the University of South Florida College of Marine Science. I originally hail from the great state of Minnesota, which doesn\u2019t have too many oceans, so this is my first time doing any sort of oceanographic fieldwork ever! Therefore, I thought I\u2019d dedicate my blog post to sharing things that I\u2019ve learned about being on a research cruise as someone who has zero experience with the ocean:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The Gulf of Mexico is unbelievably blue. More blue than I ever could\u2019ve imagined.<\/li>\n<li>Sharks HURT when you drop them on yourself. Their skin is like sandpaper and leaves a nasty rash called \u201cshark burn.\u201d<\/li>\n<li>You get to see a lot of cool stuff on cruises, like dolphins, sharks, and fish taller than you are!<\/li>\n<li>The term \u201ccruise\u201d is kind of misleading. It\u2019s a lot of early mornings and late nights with nothing but work during the day. It\u2019s DEFINITELY not a vacation!<\/li>\n<li>However, so far it\u2019s been an incredible experience unlike any I\u2019ve ever had before that I would highly recommend to anyone, provided they like hard work.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<figure style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;\" src=\"https:\/\/pbs.twimg.com\/media\/CpStqrdUkAEZ1_r.jpg\" alt=\"SwimCall\" width=\"410\" height=\"307\" \/><figcaption>When it is 110\u00b0 F on the boat deck, a swim call is a refreshing break.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<figure style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" size-full wp-image-3502\" style=\"display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.marine.usf.edu\/c-image\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/Eelfinclip-herdter-new.jpg\" alt=\"Fin clip\" width=\"409\" height=\"307\" \/><figcaption>Greta and Dr. Shannon O&#8217;Leary take a fin clip from a Ocellated moray to study genetic variation at the Harte Research Institute.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hello! My name is Greta, and I am an incoming master\u2019s student at the University of South Florida College of Marine Science. I originally hail from the great state of Minnesota, which doesn\u2019t have too many oceans, so this is&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3501,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[261],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3503","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cruise-log","entry","has-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marine.usf.edu\/c-image\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3503","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marine.usf.edu\/c-image\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marine.usf.edu\/c-image\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marine.usf.edu\/c-image\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marine.usf.edu\/c-image\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3503"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.marine.usf.edu\/c-image\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3503\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marine.usf.edu\/c-image\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3501"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marine.usf.edu\/c-image\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3503"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marine.usf.edu\/c-image\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3503"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marine.usf.edu\/c-image\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3503"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}