{"id":3536,"date":"2016-09-19T23:44:55","date_gmt":"2016-09-19T23:44:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.marine.usf.edu\/c-image\/?p=3536"},"modified":"2016-09-19T23:44:55","modified_gmt":"2016-09-19T23:44:55","slug":"r-v-weatherbird-log-melissa-rohal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.marine.usf.edu\/c-image\/r-v-weatherbird-log-melissa-rohal\/","title":{"rendered":"R\/V Weatherbird Log-Melissa Rohal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" size-full wp-image-3535\" src=\"https:\/\/www.marine.usf.edu\/c-image\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/RohalExtrude.jpg\" alt=\"RohalExtrude.jpg\" width=\"2804\" height=\"2296\" \/><\/p>\n<figure style=\"text-align: left;\"><\/figure>\n<p>Hi my name is Melissa Rohal I am a PhD Candidate at Texas A&amp;M Corpus Christi working under Dr. Paul Montagna in the Coastal and Marine System Science Program. &nbsp;My research focuses on the role and value of microscopic animals that live on or in the sediment. &nbsp;While on the cruise my task was to collect sections of mud from sediment cores for later processing in the lab.<\/p>\n<p>We had a marathon coring day on August 8th, with a total 9 drops of the sediment corer. &nbsp;In general, it took about an hour for the multiple corer to reach the sea floor. &nbsp;This is because the majority of our sample stations were deeper than 1000m. &nbsp;Once the sediment corer returned to the surface each individual core was cut into centimeter sections (0-1, 1-3, 3-5, and 5-10) and preserved in formalin dyed pink. &nbsp;A pink dye is used so that the animals are easier to locate under a microscope.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>While working we had a brief but heavy rain shower but we all needed it because when working with mud its impossible to stay clean. &nbsp;Often if you somehow managed to stay mud free a friendly lab mate would make sure you did not walk way that way. &nbsp;Regardless of already being muddy I received quite a few free mud facials and free t-shirt decoration with muddy hand prints. &nbsp;We even managed to convert a few of the fish team to the mudding side. &nbsp;I caught them making mud smiling faces in the leftover mud. &nbsp;Not to mention enjoying throwing stray mud chunks over the side.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hi my name is Melissa Rohal I am a PhD Candidate at Texas A&amp;M Corpus Christi working under Dr. Paul Montagna in the Coastal and Marine System Science Program. &nbsp;My research focuses on the role and value of microscopic animals&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3535,"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-3536","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\/3536","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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marine.usf.edu\/c-image\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3536"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.marine.usf.edu\/c-image\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3536\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marine.usf.edu\/c-image\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3535"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marine.usf.edu\/c-image\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3536"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marine.usf.edu\/c-image\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3536"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marine.usf.edu\/c-image\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3536"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}