Antarctica from my point of view:
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| Eudorylaimus |
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| Molting Scottnema (awesome) |
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| Tardigrade (I think?) egg |
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| Tardigrade! |
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| I counted over 100 tardigrades in one sample. That was a good day. |
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| an arachnophobe's worst enemy: the mite |
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| Geomonhystera |
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| Tardigrade |
We counted so many worms, I started seeing them wiggling around when I would close my eyes. Unpleasant. These plots are monitored every year so we can study changes in the populations how how these populations respond to droughts, floods, changes in temperature, and changes in nutrient availability. It is completely different from my research back at home but it's really cool to look at things on a population scale, rather than molecular (I do miss my bacteria though). The science down here is so much fun and every lab is doing something completely different.
We ended up running 304 samples, some with hundreds of nematodes. I'll get the final count posted soon! For now I am hoping it will be a while before I see another worm...
That is fairly true..but you have said a lot of weird things!!!
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