Stacy Kim
About
Expeditions:
Occupation:
Researcher
Organization:
Moss Landing Marine Laboratories
Dr. Stacy Kim is a research professor in Benthic Ecology, or how organisms that live on the seafloor interact to form communities. She has worked with Dr. Adam Marsh in both Antarctic and hydrothermal vent ecosystems, and will be diving on this project to help collect worms, as well as to continue assembling data to examine long term changes in Antarctic ecosystems. When she is not studying human impacts in marine communities and developing technology for underwater research, Stacy enjoys backpacking, climbing, and beach volleyball.
You are absolutely right!
{read more}You could go from seeing spectacled bears in the Andes mountains of Chile to seeing Humboldt penguins on the Patagonian coast of Chile. We will not see Humbodlt penguins down here at McMurdo, but what two species of penguins will we see (if we are lucky)?
Here's something more to think about on the penguin versus polar bear concept. Bears of any species are found only in the Northern Hemisphere (except for the spectacled bear), and penguins in the Southern Hemisphere (okay, a tiny bit into the north in the Galapagos). Though they wouldn't be in...{read more}
Hi back to you Janet! Thanks for Mike on our team, he is a great teacher and a hard worker. He already shoveled out the door to the dive locker when I was not looking.
{read more}Hi Bill,
Sorry for the late reply here - hope it is still useful! We do have excellent GPS coverage, and navigate using that whenever we are in air. Unfortunately the GPS signal will not travel through water, hence our need to have a special navigational system for the ROV.
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Sadly, with Tina back home there is no one to answer further questions. Some of us are looking in on the site when we have a chance and questions should continue to get sent to Tina for her to answer from Santa Cruz!
{read more}Hi Vicky,
{read more}Everyone has their own favorite, and sometimes they change, but at the moment I am missing a worm called Spiophanes tchernai. It lives in a tiny mud tube, but there are so many of them in some places that it looks like a shag carpet on the seafloor!
Hi Maddie,
{read more}The cakes are loaded in to "triwalls" which are triple layered cardboard boxes. They are stored until the supply ship comes in once a year, and then returned to the US for recycling along with all the other waste the station generates.
Number one has to be Paul's smiling face. No matter how difficult things were or how cold it was, Paul was ALWAYS smiling.
Number two, our evening meetings are New Harbor camp. Because the camp was so small, and the other researcher team needed a time to eat their dinners in peace and...{read more}
We were packing!
All of the tons of equipment and supplies that we brought down, as well as all the samples and data we had collected had to be safely packed for shipment home. There are a lot of forms and permits to fill out as well, both to get the things through New Zealand and to get...{read more}
As in any group some of us are more "vocal" than others. Every member of the team made a very important contribution to our success, and we are so glad to have worked together. Even the ones who didn't get mentioned much deserve a huge Thank You!
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