{"id":347,"date":"2017-01-09T19:41:43","date_gmt":"2017-01-09T19:41:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gso.uri.edu\/rynearson-lab\/?p=347"},"modified":"2017-01-09T19:41:43","modified_gmt":"2017-01-09T19:41:43","slug":"filtering-and-filtering-and-filtering","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/rynearson-lab\/filtering-and-filtering-and-filtering\/","title":{"rendered":"Filtering and filtering and filtering&#8230;&#8230;."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After the niskin rosette come on board, how do we collect floating phytoplankton? We use techniques that pull those plankton out of the water.\u00a0 One very common method is filtration.\u00a0 We filter water onto small round filters, collect the plankton on those filters and then discard the &#8220;empty&#8221; water.\u00a0\u00a0 This is such a great way to sample plankton that on some days, it seems like all we are doing is filtering and filtering, and filtering some more!\u00a0 These photos show Celia collecting filters that she&#8217;ll snap freeze in liquid nitrogen and then use to do DNA analyses back in the lab.\u00a0 On the right, Nigel is filtering phytoplankton for shipboard measurement of Chlorophyll a.\u00a0 The amount of Chlorophyll a is related to the amount of phytoplankton in the water.\u00a0 This is a good way for us to measure plankton abundance along our cruise track. As mentioned in an earlier post, music is a good way to spice up the long hours spent filtering.\u00a0 It also helps to have lab mates (fellow filtration specialists) who can spin a good yarn, tell a tale tale or have stand up comedy skills!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After the niskin rosette come on board, how do we collect floating phytoplankton? We use techniques that pull those plankton out of the water.\u00a0 One very common method is filtration.\u00a0 We filter water onto small round filters, collect the plankton on those filters and then discard the &#8220;empty&#8221; water.\u00a0\u00a0 This is such a great way [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":317,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-347","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-antarctic-cruise"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/rynearson-lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/347","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/rynearson-lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/rynearson-lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/rynearson-lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=347"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/rynearson-lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/347\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/rynearson-lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/317"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/rynearson-lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=347"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/rynearson-lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=347"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/rynearson-lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=347"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}