Picture of the Day for
Today everyone was quite busy,
the sea ice team completed ice optics measurements and the ice microbial team
took ice cores, while the krill biology group continued to try and find the
elusive juvenile krill. The predator
group finished one phase of their research.
The seal biologists, with the assistance of the penguin team, captured 2
crabeater seals and put their 11th and final satellite tracking
transmitter on one of them. It has been
amazing that the primary focus of the seal work has been completed within the
first 2 weeks of the cruise! This photo
shows the male crabeater seal sleeping with his new satellite tracking device
attached. Photo by Dan
Costa.