Hi everyone, I'm Lucy Fitzgerald, a rising senior and a marine science/biology major at
Eckerd College in St. Petersburg, FL. Though I've logged plenty of lab time, this is my first experience on a research vessel. This trip is the beginning of my
NOAA Hollings internship at the
SEFSC FORCES Lab in Miami. I've been on the night shift and am learning the ropes with tasks such as deploying nets and the
CTD, logging data, and tracking the
SVP drifter buoy. I have also gotten to see a lightning storm at night, fabulous sunrises, and tons of
plankton!
My goal is to learn about the upstream process of collecting specimens before working with them in the lab this summer, looking at the age and growth of billfish. As an undergrad, I'm trying to figure out what field of research I want to go into before applying to graduate school.
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| Karen and Lucy send the CTD to 300m in the GOM |
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| Lucy learns about the array recovery from Tom and Becca |
I don't have a specific research focus yet but my research experience has been primarily with paralarval squid,
Doryteuthis pealeii, and looking at the effects of
hypoxia on the boundary layer of the egg capsules as well as hatching rates/cues last summer and winter at the
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution. I have also looked at the population genetics of the brown Sargassum snail and
bandtooth conger eel in the western Atlantic.
Being out in the open water where these species live brings a whole new perspective to my work in the lab!
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