{"id":41,"date":"2010-12-14T09:38:56","date_gmt":"2010-12-14T13:38:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/web.colby.edu\/colbyatsea\/?p=41"},"modified":"2010-12-31T17:18:28","modified_gmt":"2010-12-31T21:18:28","slug":"packing-packing-packing-what-you-leave-behind-stays-behind","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/colbyatsea\/2010\/12\/14\/packing-packing-packing-what-you-leave-behind-stays-behind\/","title":{"rendered":"Packing, Packing, Packing – What you leave behind stays behind."},"content":{"rendered":"

Preparing for a cruise takes almost as much time as the cruise itself. \u00a0 Research ships are scheduled 1-2 years before the actual cruise. \u00a0 The Chief Scientist, Barney<\/a>, works with the ship operations crew at Scripps<\/a> to refine the cruise schedule, arrange for ship services, define the lab space, and organize the scientific party. \u00a0 Each scientist has a pile of medical and personnel forms to complete several months before the ship sails. \u00a0 Each science party needs to identify every piece of equipment that they will need at sea. \u00a0 Instruments are carefully packed up in shipping boxes and delivered to an air freight company for delivery to the ship. \u00a0 If you need a spare part, power plug, or replacement fuse it had better be in the box. \u00a0 Duct tape and shoe goo will only fix so much – although I packed these items too. \u00a0Chemical reagents are sent to the ship in stages. \u00a0 Acids, bases, and reactive compounds are often loaded on the ship at a US port. \u00a0 Nonreactive reagents can be sent via FedEx to the port of sail. \u00a0 Temperature sensitive reagents must be carried in the checked luggage of the scientists. You can’t use a balance on the ship so all reagents need to be weighed before shipping. \u00a0 Lists of all experiments are prepared, reagent use estimated, and reagent packs prepared. \u00a0 If you runout of reagents your experiments are finished. \u00a0 If you forget the pipette tips you can’t prepare your solutions. \u00a0 Planning is key. What you leave behind stays behind.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Preparing for a cruise takes almost as much time as the cruise itself. \u00a0 Research ships are scheduled 1-2 years before the actual cruise. \u00a0 The Chief Scientist, Barney, works with the ship operations crew at Scripps to refine the … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":184,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17554,17550],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/colbyatsea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/colbyatsea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/colbyatsea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/colbyatsea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/184"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/colbyatsea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/colbyatsea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":119,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/colbyatsea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41\/revisions\/119"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/colbyatsea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/colbyatsea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/colbyatsea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}