by Brooke Borel
Hard to believe 10 days have gone by! Yesterday was our last full day. We went on a short cruise on the Gemma, a collecting vessel, and took a look at a few sea critters that we dredged up (well. by “we” I actually mean the Gemma’s intrepid crew). Here are some photos of those, as well as more from the MBL’s Marine Resource Center. The Gemma Pulling up a lot of stuff. Other dogs should be jealous of this […]
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by Brooke Borel
Today, I wrote a post for the MBL’s Logan Science Journalism blog, which is reposted below. To see the original, click here. _______________________________________________________________________________________ Science journalists are regularly thrown into new topics, which we have to master quickly in order to meet deadlines. Because of this, there are times where we’re introduced to an idea, a field of study or even an animal within a limited context (particularly for generalist writers, like yours truly). This week, I became intimately acquainted with […]
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by Brooke Borel
Last night, we were introduced to a few critters outside of our program. We don’t get to play with these, sadly, but here are a couple of photos of my favorites. These are embryonic skates that have been busted out of their egg cases at various stages (they’re still alive, though!). Each is attached to a large egg yolk, which they will feed on until it’s gone. Normally, that’s the stage where they’d emerge from the egg case. The dark […]
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by Brooke Borel
This morning, I learned how to fertilize sea urchin eggs. And then my lab partners and I made a movie of it (title pending). A movie, that is, of the egg and sperm doing their thang under a fancy microscope (Zeiss inverted microscope, using differential interference contrast, if you’re into knowing that kind of thing). So, without further ado, I give you: Sea Urchin Fertilization 101 1. Select a sea urchin 2. Turn the sea urchin upside down– which is […]
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by Brooke Borel
I arrived in Woods Hole yesterday afternoon, and was greeted by a wall of fog. And rain. I guess this is why vacationers stay away from the Cape until later in the year. Here is a photo of the desk I’ll be blogging from this week, from an austere dorm room in the MBL’s Swope building. It comes complete with a desk-rocking chair hybrid (I bet you’ve never see one of these before!) And now, time to go exploring in […]
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by Brooke Borel
I intended to start blogging here when I moved my site to WordPress last January. Five months later, here is my first post! Better late than never, eh? I’m headed to the Marine Biology Lab this Wednesday for a 10-day-long journalism fellowship. I just received my syllabus from MBL this morning, and pheeeewy it is going to be a busy ten days. Breakfast at 7:30 each morning, then headed to the biomedical lab to play with sea urchins, then lectures, […]
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Brooke Borel