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.
This season, there were a lot of researchers from New Zealand, France, and Italy working around McMurdo. We had a small group of Japanese researchers as well. Many countries have their own Antarctic research stations, so though we may not have met them, there is an international community on...{read more}
Paul was last at McMurdo in the late 1980s, I believe. He put down experiments then, in addition to the ones he had been putting down for the previous quarter century!
{read more}Hi Jillian, Beto, Jose, Misty, Marvin, Adrian, Zauria, Parker, Adrian
(2) and Lane,
How exciting that you are going to put your ROV in under the ice! I
do not know very much about ice on lakes, but I do know that you want
to be very, very careful. If you can chop a hole...{read more}
Hi Ciara,
Here are some ideas -
McMurdo Station - "regular" life
SCINI design - engineering challenges
Field camp - science support
SCINI mission - new discoveries
Scuba diving - monitoring change
You can get some information on all of these fro m our...{read more}
Hi Mrs. Waldeck's 4th Grade class,
Mrs. Cross is taking a class right now. It is called SnowCraft I and is nicknamed Happy Camper Training, and it is to teach you how to survive if you get stick outdoors in Antarctica. So tonight she will be sleeping out of doors!
SCINI has seen...{read more}
Oops, I have to correct my post - McMurdo Sound is 500 m deep (1500 ft).
{read more}Hi Fred,
Did you think of a reason to put lots of holes in somethign that is going underwater? Mrs. Cross gave you a good hint with her water bottle example. It's to let the air out - with all the holes, water fills all the spaces where air would otherwise be trapped. Pockets of air...{read more}
Hi Lollie,
SCINI has a couple of new modifications this year. Most exciting (to me), she now has two cameras. Her forward looking eye can tilt up and down (like last year) and is mostly used by the pilot to get information for flying. The new camera is downward looking, and lets us see...{read more}
Hi Cassie,
Mrs. Cross is out there learning what to do in case we get caught in a storm right now. The training course is called Happy Campers. We had two storms while we were at our field camp in Bay of Sails. During the first one, all 5 of us huddled together in the main tent where...{read more}
Hi Ciara,
What a cool thing you are doing!
My job is a research scientist, I am a benthic ecologist which means I
am interested in animals that live on and in the seafloor. You can
see more about my job, and the other team members, at...{read more}