{"id":249,"date":"2014-01-31T23:13:32","date_gmt":"2014-01-31T23:13:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.oceanblogs.org\/kosmos2014gc\/?p=249"},"modified":"2014-05-07T13:12:08","modified_gmt":"2014-05-07T12:12:08","slug":"249","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.oceanblogs.org\/kosmos2014gc\/2014\/01\/31\/249\/","title":{"rendered":"Nine <del>little<\/del> large mesocosms sheltering from a storm"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(sung to the tune of \u201cNeun kleine Jaegermeister\u201d by Die Toten Hosen)<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 13px;\"><em>Nine little mesocosms assembled on a pier,<br \/>\nhuddling round and sitting tight for the windy weather to clear.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Nine little mesocosms perched upon a quay,<br \/>\nwatching the massive swells roll by with fibre-glassy grins of glee.<\/p>\n<p>Nine little mesocosms sheltering from a storm,<br \/>\nwaiting for their time to shine when the weather returns to form.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_250\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.oceanblogs.org\/kosmos2014gc\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2014\/01\/2014-01-29_Mesocosm-Gran_Canaria_2_APaul.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-250\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-250\" src=\"http:\/\/www.oceanblogs.org\/kosmos2014gc\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2014\/01\/2014-01-29_Mesocosm-Gran_Canaria_2_APaul-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Mesocosms waiting on the pier in Taliarte Harbour (Photo: A. Paul)\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.oceanblogs.org\/kosmos2014gc\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2014\/01\/2014-01-29_Mesocosm-Gran_Canaria_2_APaul-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.oceanblogs.org\/kosmos2014gc\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2014\/01\/2014-01-29_Mesocosm-Gran_Canaria_2_APaul.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-250\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mesocosms waiting on the pier in Taliarte Harbour (Photo: A. Paul)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Now that the group and our equipment have arrived, we are just waiting for Mother Nature to also play its part. Stormy weather from the North Atlantic passed through the Canary Islands over the last few days and delayed the start of the campaign, meaning that the mesocosms are currently still stuck on dry land. But fortunately for the KOSMOS group, experiment participants and the 9 <del>little<\/del> large mesocosms*, the conditions are getting better and better for the mesocosms to be attached to the moorings. The first sampling days are approaching and our filtration racks are ready!<br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 12px;\">* Little is a bit of an understatement for these very tall mesocosm structures but was used here with an artistic license to fit the tune of the well-known German punk band, &#8220;Die Toten Hosen&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(sung to the tune of \u201cNeun kleine Jaegermeister\u201d by Die Toten Hosen) Nine little mesocosms assembled on a pier, huddling round and sitting tight for the windy weather to clear. Nine little mesocosms perched upon a quay, watching the massive swells roll by with fibre-glassy grins of glee. Nine little mesocosms sheltering from a storm, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":73,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,2],"tags":[4],"class_list":["post-249","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-experiment","category-ocean-acidification","tag-mesocosms"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oceanblogs.org\/kosmos2014gc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oceanblogs.org\/kosmos2014gc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oceanblogs.org\/kosmos2014gc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oceanblogs.org\/kosmos2014gc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/73"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oceanblogs.org\/kosmos2014gc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=249"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.oceanblogs.org\/kosmos2014gc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":498,"href":"https:\/\/www.oceanblogs.org\/kosmos2014gc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249\/revisions\/498"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oceanblogs.org\/kosmos2014gc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=249"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oceanblogs.org\/kosmos2014gc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=249"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oceanblogs.org\/kosmos2014gc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=249"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}