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Yesterday I mentioned that two of the coolest things about this cruise are time and scale. We covered time yesterday, looking at Marco Coolen?s work on paleo-genetics and the history of Ehux?s battle with the virus. Today we?re going to talk about scale, and zoom out to 20,000 feet above the earth where satellites orbit.
Ana Martins is a researcher at the University of the Azores, and on board she uses the data from those satellites to figure out where to direct our vessel. I explained in an earlier post that you can see these plankton from space, and that we use satellite information to steer in the right direction. That?s Ana?s job: using the s
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