T-10 days. Yipes!

The last (hopefully) set of lab equipment and supplies for our upcoming research cruise in Antarctica. It's too late to ship these down to the ship in Punta Arenas, so we'll be taking them on the airplane with us.

In just over a week, our field team will be assembling in Punta Arenas, Chile and begin to load our gear and supplies aboard the research vessel (Laurence M. Gould) for our 2nd year of field work for this project. Most of our gear and equipment was shipped down several months ago (from NY to CA where it got put on a boat that took it down to Chile), however there's always a fair amount of random gear that we either needed to use in the lab, on other projects, or forgot to pack originally!

The four of us participating in the project this year will start posting daily updates once we arrive in Chile so stay tuned for another exciting year of Salp adventures in the Southern Ocean.

-Joe