Catherine 🐧🌊

Front page of the Integrated Marine Observing System newsletter.

Thanks to the CAPSTAN voyage in March this year, Rachel Wong and I wrote articles about the Continuous Plankton Recorder (CPR). Read our articles on pages 49 and 50 in Issue 16 of the @imos-aus.bsky.social Plankton Newsletter: imos.org.au/wp-content/u...

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Catherine estimating the gular pouch volume of an Australasian gannet.

Catherine explaining an ancestral state reconstruction of different tongue papillae states in bird specimens

Recently I had the opportunity to present some of my thesis research to undergraduate students at @imas-utas.bsky.social. Big thank you to Dr Jane Younger, Dr David Hocking and Dr Travis Park for their supervision, and Elisa Davis for her practical assistance.

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So excited to be volunteering with Mawson’s Huts and their Mobile Antarctic Classroom (MAC). The program sends presenters and volunteers to local schools to educate them about Antarctica! 🐧

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Catherine is looking down at a clipboard, taking important scientific notes. Her long brown hair is tied back and she is wearing a black long sleeve shirt. In the background there are a collection of tubes along the wall and Niskin bottles. The backdrop is an industrial ship, with white walls and a door.

A rosette of 36 Niskin bottles is hung over the starboard side of the ship. The rosette is being prepared to be dropped and collect water samples at different depths of the ocean. On the left someone wearing a hi vis vest looks at the machinery. The dark colour of the ocean and lights on the ship suggests the time is just after sunset.

An ARGO float hangs from a wire off the starboard side of the ship. This piece of equipment will float in the ocean collecting data for a number of months. The ocean is dark and the sky is a beautiful orange, the sun has just set.

Students and staff involved in the CAPSTAN project stand on two levels of the ship, outside the bridge. Their hands are up and everyone seems to be smiling. The familiar backdrop of the RV Investigator ship is behind them, with its famous ball shaped objects at the top of the ship, used for weather radar. The sky is mostly blue with some cloud coverage.

Such an honour to be a part of the CAPSTAN 2025 voyage! I got first hand experience with interesting equipment and met amazing individuals. 🌊

Photo credits:
Maren Preuss | CSIRO | IMAS

This training was supported by a grant of sea time on RV Investigator from the CSIRO Marine National Facility.

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