As told last week, we are currently hosting the international course on Annelid Systematics, Morphology and Evolution at the University of Bergen’s field station. Here’s a little update of what we have been up to since the previous post:
The days are pretty packed, with lectures, sampling, and lab work – thankfully both students and teachers are enjoying the work, and the mood in the lab is sunny (even if the Bergen “summer” is somewhat…fickle these days). We have covered a multitude of research topics, methods, habitats, and annelid groups so far, with still more to come.
Happy, hard working students in the lab
“summer” sampling – we did get very nice samples!
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- Dividing up between the two ships R/V Hans Brattstrøm and Aurelia this morning
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- Aurelia
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- The insterstitial fauna hunters leaving Brattstrøm behind
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- Worm Hunters
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- Grab
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- Protocol for the proper washing of samples – good skills to learn!
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- More sample washing
Back in the lab, Torsten explaining todays exercises
Mixing the solution to get the tiny annelids out
Pointing out the jaws of a small Ophryotrocha
We’ll keep blogging from the from the course, so check back!
You can also get some glimpses of the exciting world of Worm researchers (!) by checking the tag #annelidacourse2017 on Twitter (you don’t need an account to do that, just click the link).