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Field Work
 

Transporting Gear on the Dry Valley Lakes

Brianna Arnold and Delisa Rogers pulling sampling gear on Lake Fryxell, 2004

Joel Moore pulling sampling gear out to the Weatherhaven on Lake Hoare, 2004

Pulling drilling gear to the sampling site on Lake Bonney, 2004

Drilling Sampling Holes
Drilling inside the Weatherhaven for sampling with the Niskin bottle

 Drilling a sampling hole in the Weatherhaven, 2004

 


Removing drill flights while drilling in the Weatherhaven
 
Drilling outside for PPR incubations and profiling instruments

Jill Mikucki and Craig Wolf drilling a sampling hole on Lake Vanda, 2002

 


The drilling team with seven drill flights on Lake Fryxell, 2000

The Limno team working to free a frozen drill bit, 2003

 


John Priscu, Joel Moore and Delisa Rogers drilling a sampling hole on Lake Fryxell, 2004

John Priscu with the 4 inch drill on Lake Fryxell, 2004

Sample Collection

The Niskin bottle coming up with a sample, 2004

 


Craig Wolf and Aaron Hall pulling up the Niskin bottle with a lake water sample, 2000

Christine Foreman, Birgit Sattler and Craig Wolf collecting samples from the Niskin bottle, 2000

 


Joel Moore collecting a lake water sample from the Niskin bottle, 2004

Amy Chiuchiolo and Delisa Rogers with a few sample bottles to be filled, 2004

The Limno Team in the Weatherhaven, 2002

Craig Wolf getting ready to deploy PPR incubations

Sampling at Lake Vanda during a day trip, 2001
Miscellaneous Field Projects

Sawing an ice pit in Lake Bonney

 


Down in the ice pit!

Instrument Deployment
 

CTD Deployment

Lowering the Seabird CTD through
an ice hole, 2004

Amy Chiuchiolo downloads data from the CTD, 2005
(photo by R. Morgan-Kiss)

Underwater PAR measurements

In situ Spectrofluorometer

Tucker Stevens and Christine Foreman
setting up the LI-COR sensor to take underwater
PAR measurements, 2002.

Joel Moore lowering the bbe Fluoroprobe
in Lake Bonney, 2004
(photo by A. Chiuchiolo)
 
Profiling Natural Fluorescence

Profiling natural fluorescence through the
water column using the PNF-300

Amy Chiuchiolo preparing the
PNF-300 for deployment, 2005

(photo by R. Morgan-Kiss)

Rachael Morgan-Kiss preparing the
PNF-300 for deployment, 2005

(photo by A. Chiuchiolo)
 

Lab Work
 

Filters containing chlorophyll-a for measurement of Community Respiration
determined via the Electron Transport System
 

A filter from 9m in Lake Fryxell during
ETS filtration

A filter from 11m in Lake Fryxell during ETS filtration

A filter from 15m in Lake Fryxell during
ETS filtration

Mini-Winkler titrations for determination of dissolved oxygen concentration
in lake water samples
 

Amy Chiuchiolo with samples
from Lake Hoare, 2004
(photo by A. Chiuchiolo)

Lab set-up for mini-Winkler titrations

Emily Roberts with the micro-buret
 

The darker colors (upper depths) indicate more
oxygen in these Lake Fryxell samples

The darker colors (upper depths) indicate more
oxygen in these Lake Hoare samples

Phytoplankton Primary Production (PPR) determined by 14C Incorporation
 

The lab at Lake Hoare set up for PPR filtration

 McLane Sediment Trap Deployment
 

'01-'02
 

Christine Foreman preparing the
sediment trap for deployment
 

Positioning the sediment trap for deployment

Lowering the sediment trap

The sediment trap going down
 

Sediment collected from Lake Fryxell
'05-'06
 

Ed Adams and John Priscu
retrieving the sediment trap
(photo by A. Chiuchiolo)

Joel Moore and Ed Adams
with the sediment trap
(photo by A. Chiuchiolo)

 

     

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