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Saturday was World Octopus Day! Not everyone gets to have suction cups on their arms.
October 10, 2016
Suckers on the limb of a common octopus (Octopus vulgaris).
Photo: David Walker
The night shift has proceeded normally – station to station, trawl to trawl, CTD data collection at each station, plankton collected periodically throughout the shift. Certain trawl catches have been exceptionally muddy, which poses a further task, as the organisms must first be separated from all of the mud and cleaned, before they can be identified.Read the blog post
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