It’s a Wrap! Final DolLAYER Science Cruise
The Doliolideer gang was back at it this month completing the fifth and final science cruise associated with the NSF supported DolLAYER project. If this is the first time you… Read more »
The Doliolid Digest
A blog for the Dol-LAYER and Dol-MICROBE projects
Doliolideers Defending and Publishing Research
We like to call the scientists and students involved with the DolLAYER and DolMICROBE projects “doliolideers” because we study doliolids (and other zooplankton) and our group is cohesive like the… Read more »
DolLAYER “Mixed-up” Gulf cruise complete
The DolLAYER team was at sea from October 27 – November 10 to measure changes in the northern Gulf of Mexico shelf food webs during the vertically mixed time of… Read more »
DolLAYER Summer Gulf Cruise Complete
The August cruise for DolLAYER in the Gulf of Mexico is officially complete. We were at sea from August 13-26 and had excellent weather almost the entire time. The whole… Read more »
Doliolideers present research at Aquatic Sciences
During the last week of March, faculty, staff, and students attended the Aquatic Sciences Meeting in Charlotte, NC to present research from the DolMICROBE project (and some preliminary findings from… Read more »
ZERO-C Lab (Greer) is on Instagram!
Thanks to graduate student Grace Mann, the ZERO-C Lab now has an Instagram page. Please follow us to see pictures and videos of interesting zooplankton from all over the world… Read more »
That’s a wrap on the November DolLAYER cruise
The November cruise is officially complete for DolLAYER. We were able to go back to the sites where we saw the large bloom of diatoms earlier in the trip. We… Read more »
DolLAYER November cruise underway
We are underway for the 7th DolLAYER cruise and the 2nd major field sampling campaign of the project (NSF Grant #2244690). On November 7, 2024, we departed Skidaway Institute of… Read more »
Summer cruise for DolLAYER
The Greer, Frischer, Brandes, and Treible (Savannah State) research groups just completed a cruise in the South Atlantic Bight (SAB) onboard the RV Savannah. This was the first science cruise… Read more »
Doliolid EVO-DEVO
My name is C. J. Pickett, and I traveled from the Davidson Lab at Swarthmore College to work with Marc Frischer’s lab and the amazing tunicate, the Doliolid. Tunicates are… Read more »