{"id":142,"date":"2012-01-18T19:06:43","date_gmt":"2012-01-18T19:06:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/arcticocean.globaloceanexploration.com\/?p=142"},"modified":"2012-01-18T19:06:43","modified_gmt":"2012-01-18T19:06:43","slug":"october-6-first-sampling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/arcticocean.globaloceanexploration.com\/?p=142","title":{"rendered":"October 6: First Sampling"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\"\"<\/a>Slate-Colored Junco (Photo credit: Luke DeCicco, USFWS)<\/p>\n

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In the wee hours of the morning, we began the CTD casts along our first transect and continued to sample throughout the night until the late morning when it was time to retrieve a mooring.\u00a0 The mooring had been deployed last year in order to record salinity, temperature and a variety of other physical parameters of the water.\u00a0 The scientists are excited to retrieve their instruments and find out what has happened in the year since its deployment.<\/p>\n

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It is kind of a cloudy and cold day with snow dusting the decks but we still are experiencing calm seas.\u00a0 There have been quite a few birds surrounding the ship including a songbird, a slate-colored junco, a subspecies of the dark-eyed junco, that must have lost its way from its home in the arboreal forest.\u00a0 One of my favorite things about being at sea is discovering these little creatures seeking refuge on the ship after they have lost their way.\u00a0 This little guy hung out on the boat for a while before hopefully heading south out of the Arctic.\u00a0 They are not often spotted this far north so he had certainly lost his way.<\/p>\n

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  Slate-Colored Junco (Photo credit: Luke DeCicco, USFWS) In the wee hours of the morning, we began the CTD casts along our first transect and continued to sample throughout the night until the late morning when it was time to retrieve a mooring.\u00a0 The mooring had been deployed last year in order to record salinity, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-142","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-arctic-expedition"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/arcticocean.globaloceanexploration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/arcticocean.globaloceanexploration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/arcticocean.globaloceanexploration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/arcticocean.globaloceanexploration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/arcticocean.globaloceanexploration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=142"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/arcticocean.globaloceanexploration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":145,"href":"http:\/\/arcticocean.globaloceanexploration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142\/revisions\/145"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/arcticocean.globaloceanexploration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=142"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/arcticocean.globaloceanexploration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=142"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/arcticocean.globaloceanexploration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=142"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}