Category Archives: Sampling

Eddy Pump I: setting up of laboratories and sampling bottles

Posted on February 2, 2012 by Juan Santos-Echeandia

As I told you in my previous blog, I am working onboard the research vessel Polarstern from the Alfred Wegener Institute. I am participating in the Eddy Pump research project that will take place from the 7th January to 11th … Continue reading →

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Next Station…. ANTARCTICA!

Posted on January 4, 2012 by Juan Santos-Echeandia

During the next couple of months, I will be participating in a scientific sampling cruise in the Southern Ocean organized by the Alfred Wegener Institute (AWI). Our research will be focused on the impact of iron over the phytoplancton communities … Continue reading →

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FIA-Chemiluminescence system ready for Antarctica

Posted on November 24, 2011 by Juan Santos-Echeandia

During the last 3 weeks I have been visiting Dr. Laglera´s lab in the University of the Balearic Islands. The challenge was simple: set up the dissolved iron determination method by means of flow injection analysis with chemiluminescence detection (FIA-CL). … Continue reading →

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Tagus Salt-marsh sampling

Posted on September 30, 2011 by Juan Santos-Echeandia

This week, I have received a visit in Lisbon. Dr. Cobelo-García and PhD student Clara Almécija from the IIM, joined me at the IPIMAR. We have been sampling with Dr. Miguel Caetano in two different saltmarshes on the south margin of the … Continue reading →