{"id":13,"date":"2018-12-16T18:01:00","date_gmt":"2018-12-16T05:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/christinamcgraw\/?p=13"},"modified":"2018-12-16T21:52:16","modified_gmt":"2018-12-16T08:52:16","slug":"field-deployment-in-vanuatu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/christinamcgraw\/field-deployment-in-vanuatu\/","title":{"rendered":"Fieldwork in Vanuatu (Dec 2018)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Christina and Wayne just returned from Vanuatu.<\/p>\n

With the support of The Ocean Foundation<\/a> and in collaboration with Dr. Krishna Kotra (The University of the South Pacific<\/a>, USP), we set-up USP\u2019s ocean acidification (OA) laboratory and helped deploy Vanuatu\u2019s first OA monitoring system.<\/p>\n

About 30 USP students, technicians and members of the community contributed to the project.<\/p>\n

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The team shows their enthusiasm by spelling out \u201cOA\u201d!<\/p><\/div>\n

The instruments are deployed in Erakor Lagoon, using instruments Krishna received through the \u201cGOA in a box<\/a>\u201d programme.<\/p>\n

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USP students helping with deployment.<\/p><\/div>\n

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Another beautiful day at the beach.<\/p><\/div>\n

The instruments were deployed on an anchor built by USP technicians using a repurposed cabinet drawer. Here, you can see Wayne\u2019s newest sensor (blue box), which he deployed alongside the iSAMI pH sensor (black cylinder) from the GOA-ON kit.<\/p>\n

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Wayne Dillon deploys his sensor in Erakor Lagoon, Vanuatu<\/p><\/div>\n

Thank you to The University of the South Pacific, The Ocean Foundation, GOA-ON, Dr. Krishna Kotra, and all of students, technicians and community members who contributed to this project.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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