| Tide pools get a lot of attention for their rich biology, but what about their
chemistry and physical oceanography? Our field trip aimed to understand how
the water in a tide pool changes in the time that the tide pool is isolated from
the open ocean.
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We chose 3 tide pools to sample 4 times each, with 20 to 30 minute
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Temperatures were measured at shallow and deep depths to let us
evaluate how the heat content of a tide pool changes in time.
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| MAE grad student Felipe Mejia (from Jan Kleissl's group) brought
along a pyranometer, a net radiometer, and a thermistor so that we could
track the solar energy input.
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Tide pool latitude, longitude, and temperature were logged each
time a sample was collected.
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Water samples were "poisoned" to stop biological activity, to keep
the CO2 content from changing before samples could be run.
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Samples were returned to the Andersson lab to be run.
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| Lots of marine life ....
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