{"id":10368,"date":"2024-03-07T18:02:02","date_gmt":"2024-03-07T22:02:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/zobi.alcowep.com\/bourtagshdrevxnls658739\/students-become-fjordphyto-volunteers-and-discover-that-antarctica-is-much-colder-than-texas\/"},"modified":"2024-03-07T18:02:02","modified_gmt":"2024-03-07T22:02:02","slug":"students-become-fjordphyto-volunteers-and-discover-that-antarctica-is-much-colder-than-texas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zobi.alcowep.com\/bourtagshdrevxnls658739\/students-become-fjordphyto-volunteers-and-discover-that-antarctica-is-much-colder-than-texas\/","title":{"rendered":"Students Become FjordPhyto Volunteers and Discover that Antarctica Is Much Colder Than Texas"},"content":{"rendered":"

Students Become FjordPhyto Volunteers and Discover that Antarctica Is Much Colder Than Texas<\/h2>\n

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Texas A&M sent 31 students to the Antarctic this year\u2014and they did some vital NASA science while they were there.<\/p>\n

Meteorology students, oceanography students and education psychology students worked with Dr. Chrissy Wiederwohl\u00a0to collect data for NASA\u2019s\u00a0FjordPhyto project.<\/a>\u00a0The data reveal how meltwater from glaciers affects phytoplankton, the base of the Antarctic food chain.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\u201cWe were actually collecting samples for them to look at these phytoplankton communities and how\u00a0they are changing over time,\u201d\u00a0said\u00a0Dr. Wiederwohl,\u00a0an oceanographer at Texas A&M University.\u00a0\u00a0\u201cPhytoplankton are these tiny microscopic plants in\u00a0the ocean that photosynthesize and produce about half of our oxygen worldwide. So every other breath\u00a0we take is actually oxygen coming from the ocean.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Korina Zhang and Adam Neuville\u00a0collecting data for NASA\u2019s FjordPhyto project. They are\u00a0students with Texas A&M\u2019s\u00a0American Universities International Program\u00a0in Antarctica.<\/div>\n
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FjordPhyto has also recently involved students from Penn State University and Virginia Tech.<\/p>\n

The students spent sixty days in a research vessel through the American Universities International Program (AUIP) limited study abroad program.\u00a0The\u00a0effort\u00a0was\u00a0coordinated with the\u00a0FjordPhyto team at Scripps Institution of Oceaongraphy and Isidro Bosch of State University of New York in Geneseo, New York.<\/p>\n

Going to Antarctica? You can join the FjordPhyto project, too<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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