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The Antarctic Sun: News about Antarctica - Charting a Genetic Sea Change


 
Photo Credit: Ken Halanych
Researchers Candace Grimes (left) and Damien Waits process recently collected annelid worms in the lab on board the research vessel Nathaniel B. Palmer.
Charting a Genetic Sea Change
How the DNA of Sea Creatures Contain a Coded Map of Ancient Antarctica
By Michael Lucibella,
Photo Credit: Ken Halanych
(Left to right) Rich Thompson, Colin Brayton and Alex Brett work to set up the Megacore sampler before it s dropped over the side of the ship to collect samples from the seafloor.
In October, despite the ongoing COVID pandemic, a team of researchers sailed from California to Antarctica to bring back the sea creatures with evidence of a long-lost transantarctic sea coded into their genes. ....

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The Antarctic Sun: News about Antarctica - Counting on Seals


Counting on Seals
By Michael Lucibella,
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The 2020 seal team field crew. From left to right, Kaitlin Macdonald, Parker Levinson and Will McDonald.
Fewer researchers and support staff traveled to Antarctica in 2020 to reduce the risk of introducing the virus to the continent. One of the few science teams that did go is working on the long-term study of Weddell seals in McMurdo Sound.
We re trying to understand how things mothers do for their offspring might help those pups do better or do worse later in life, said Jay Rotella, an ecologist at Montana State University and principal investigator on the project. ....

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