New expedition

We have a reunion with the Chile team on board RV Aranda in the Baltic Sea: http://cflux16.blogspot.com

We have all the data ready now from the Chile experiment and I hope we are able to publish something soon :-)

Back to Finland

We have returned to Helsinki and all the luggage made it as well :-)

View of the Andes right after take off from Santiago

View of the Baltic Sea as we return home

Clening up - T+2

Today we will pack and clean up. We are leaving for Santiago tomorrow, and then back to Helsinki via Paris on Sunday.

Alicia cleaning the cubitainers

Tere preparing the zooplankton samples

Trip to Valparaiso

Now that the experiment is over, we had to make a trip to Valparaiso to deliver some samples. The inorganic nutrients will be measured at the Pontifica Universidad Catolica de Valparaiso. After delivering the samples we used the opportunity to have a look around the city, which has the status of a UNESCO World Heritage Site.

Last sampling day - T12

Today is a hectic day as we are doing the final sampling. The remaining water is consumed for filtration, community composition and primary production measurements.

All the cubitainers have been taken out to make sampling easier

Answers for the post "A closer look at the lab"

 Stove (used as a bunsen)

 Periodic table

 Microscope slide with lugol (fixative)

 Filtration unit

 Rack for eppendorf tubes

Cuvette for the fluorescence measurements

Zooplankton beasts

Tere counting zooplankton with an inverted microscope 

 Two tiny beasts (Didinium sp.) and diatoms

 Didinium sp. is the most abundant ciliate in the samples

Laboea sp. (aka Carrot shaped ciliate)