Yesterday I joined Jim Lee and Charlie Milan to help them execute sampling for the monthly Barataria Transect, one of Eugene Turner’s projects. His lab has been doing this transect, monthly, since 1994 to monitor water chemistry and some of the biology that occurs across this contiguous estuarine system. Over the years, various other sampling has been done, including work on the Macondo oil spill and toxic algal blooms. They brought me along so I could collect samples at the beginning of the transect in support of our microbial community survey of the Southern Louisiana coastline and our high-throughput culturing activities. I also brought my camera.


















-jct