Lisa's Lab Book

 From around 30 minutes into the programme you can hear about our project on board Polarstern expedition#146

  It was a bit chaotic but here you can see inside the ship and find out a bit more about what I was doing in Antarctica.

 The metal boxes are ready to be shipped to Germany

  We visited  The Deep  in Hull A few of us went to visit the aquarium in Jacob's home city of Hull. It was a really beautiful sunny late summer (early autumn?) day. the Humber estuary sparkled in the sunlight! As well as learning about and seeing lots of marine life we had a significant event to celebrate. We marked the finish of Nial's PhD thesis write-up - congratulations!

Dr. Julia Fitzgerald visited us in Nottingham last week. Julia (accordian) gave a great talk at the Neurochats Seminar Series in University Park and we were able to discuss our research and the potential to continue some work together now that the Nottingham-Tuebingen grant has finished. though Julia spent some years studying in Nottingham she had not visited recently and so we Rachel (bass), Katie (drums) and Jacob (tambourine) took her to visit The Nottingham Contemporary Art Museum. Above you see our newly formed band in the Julian Abraham 'Togar': REꓘONCILIATION exhibition. We also enjoyed the work of  Hamid Zénati: Two Steps at a Time (below).  

  Right at the end of April I joined Andrew MacColl and his team on North Uist in the Outer Hebrides. My second time on North Uist and it was  even better than the first since I had a bit more of an idea of the way things were done. As you see from the photos above this place looks like imagined 'Paradise'. The weather was mostly dry and field work was in full swing when I arrived. This year Megan took the Loligo systems microplate array to measure oxygen consumption in eggs developing at different temperatures. Henry rescued my wellington boots from the mud numerous times. Ben had taken a wetsuit and was able to find me a few sponges. Each day was spent setting and emptying traps followed by lab work in 'production-line' style. It was extremely enjoyable and also very productive.