09/10/26

A vibrant polychaete I found while washing sediment.

For some reason I woke up at 6:30am today, wide awake. Maybe it was all the noises from the rocking ship. I felt much better than I did the night before. So I decided to get breakfast, which I am never awake for. Today they had a ‘build your own bagel’ bar, which was nice. I decided to take advantage of the energy I had and get to work. Once again, I was washing mud and picking the first few samples in search of life. We found more Miliolida in the core, which are again the order of foraminifera we are most interested in. We also got a surprise core from a different groups’ MC deployment which they did not want. It was a short core, but nice to have because it had the same depth of the core with the species that we were looking for. In addition to forams, I found other weird things in the mud…