Tuesday, January 19, 2010

Not dead yet, I'm feeling betta

Not much going on here. We spent Christmas in WY with the fam. Thairo and I snuck away to Saratoga one day which was great. The water was too hot to stay in very long even though it was hair-freezing-cold.
Now I'm getting ready for my first and last cruise of the year. There's an army of us going this time. 3 from the oceanography lab, and another post-doc from my main lab. We'll be doing all the regular DNA and gas work, plus several nitrogen and sulfur species. Not sure if we'll actually detect the compounds that we're looking for deep in the ocean, but as far as I've been able to tell, we'll be the first to try. So hopefully even a "not there" result will be publishable.
I should post more about the cruise in the next few weeks.