09/12/26

Today I made a lot of progress on washing and finished picking all of the intervals that I needed to in search of live foraminifera! I also got to watch my friend come out of Alvin in the afternoon which was fun. An Alvin tradition for first-time divers is to be dunked with water so I was encouraged  to fill up a couple of buckets before she got out. 

In the evening, we were given a couple of push cores from the Alvin deployment to sample. We decided to preserve all of the Miliolida we found, just in case they were alive. Since my lab mate had dove in Alvin today, I took charge of processing the push cores on the night shift. Picking took a lot longer than expected and before I knew it, it was 7am. As exhausting as the shift was, I was able to slice both cores, collect water, and preserve about 50 foraminifera (which were hard to find).