Rickie recently returned from a 2 1/2 week long research cruise as part of the PUPCYCLE cruises, where she investigated phytoplankton growth and grazing dynamics. After many long days, Rickie returns exhausted but incredibly grateful for her experience and all the data she was able to gather. She looks forward to future collaborations with the world-wide fellow scientists that were onboard as she analyzes and interprets her results. The image shows Rickie peaking out from inside a DIY dark room where she read chlorophyll samples on a fluorometer.