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The tools for precision ag may pay for themselves on the right farm in the right situations. But the one thing you can't say about most of these electronic wonders is that they are cheap. Even if a team of reputable scientists has the research numbers to show that these boxes of wires and software are probably going to be a good investment in the long run, it's often hard for farmers to part with a lot of cash for something they somehow got along without before.
To be sure, plenty of early adopters and innovators already have jumped into precision ag with both feet, hooking up tractors, ATVs and combines with branded and conveniently packaged systems. But for a significant portion of farmers, a spending aversion holds true whether they are looking at a $4,000 GPS-guided lightbar system or a $40,000 RTK system that can steer a tractor hands-free down a field with sub-inch accuracy.
Companies that sell precision ag systems refer to these tough-sell characters as technology laggards. But that's not really a fair assessment for all cost-averse farmers. Many are still interested in new technology; they are just determined to find a less expensive way to get the job done. Often, these are the same farmers who look for bargains with generic herbicides or a regional seed dealer. To them, technology is just another input to be purchased as cheaply as possible. And they aren't afraid to spend some extra time and effort figuring out how to capture those savings.
A question e-mailed to Farm Industry News from a farmer who identified himself only as Ray, is typical of a new type of letter we've been receiving in our in-box.
I have a question for you regarding a laptop use and GPS. Is there any way someone could use a laptop for the processor and display for Ag Leader or Greenstar? I talked to someone today who said they have seen someone using just a laptop with GPS software to vary air seeding on the go. If this could be done, it would be far cheaper than buying the complete systems. The problem I see is the hookup for the moisture sensor and grain flow meter. I would also like to use it for putting in my tile. I know there is GPS software available with street maps, but I have never seen anything to use it as a yield monitor. Any information would be appreciated.
Thanks, Ray
To help answer Ray's question, we called on Daniel Humburg, an ag engineer at South Dakota State University who has written a number of papers on precision agriculture, http://abe.sdstate.edu/faculty/dhumburg.htm . Humburg's answer, which follows with a few added Web link resources, shows that GPS control of machinery via laptop or handheld computer is possible, but not necessarily easy.
It is possible to do some level of variable-rate control with a laptop or even a palmtop device. If someone only wishes to do output control of chemical, or fertilizer, or seeding rate, they can do this with some application machinery and a laptop or palmtop. I will give one example, but please understand that I do not pretend to be aware of all current products on the market and so will not attempt to list all of the systems that might be able to do similar function.
If I wanted to control variable rate of a herbicide across my CRP field, I would require several things:
First, my system must know where it is. Differentially corrected GPS will do this part.
Second, I must have a plan. This is in the form of an electronic map. This may be addressed by the software I purchase to run on the portable computer. It might also be possible to generate a map on my desktop mapping software that can be loaded onto the portable computer in a compatible format.
For a summary of software products ready to use with handheld or laptop computers, go to http://farmindustrynews.com/mag/farming_farming_field_records/ .
Third, I must have a computer and software combination that can accept the map, accept the GPS signal, make the current output decision, and communicate that output to an application machine.
Last, I must have an application device that will accept the output command from the portable computer.
Here's one example. Note that there is undoubtedly other software and hardware that could also do this:
I am familiar with software called Field Rover II. This is a program developed by Farm Works ( www.farmworks.com) that has utility for GPS-based scouting, and has a variable-rate add-on capability. I use this for teaching with backpack GPS receivers and palmtop computers.
Let us assume that the desktop portion of the program can help generate the desired application map. (This I have not had reason to do, but believe to be possible.) That map is then loaded onto the palmtop device. The palmtop is connected through an RS 232 serial connection to the GPS receiver to obtain input location coordinates from that device, while the transmit wire of the RS 232 serial connection must be connected to the RS 232 input of the chemical application system. I will use a Raven system in this example.
Many of Raven's application controllers now accept dynamic application rate inputs through RS 232. So, once in the field the palmtop computer (or laptop) will monitor its position and send a command for the current rate to the Raven controller, which will set its current rate to the command.
In order for this to work, you would have to build your own wiring harness to get data into and out of the portable computer. Most have only one RS 232 port and we are using it for both incoming and outgoing information. Also, you would want external power provided to the portable computer as continuous serial port use will drain batteries quickly.
For technical information on how to expand the utility of a RS 232 serial connection, visit http://www.taltech.com/resources/tcpip.htm .
While the example I gave is possible, it is certainly not as robust a system as you would get from Greenstar, or CNH AFS products, or AgStar, or AgLeader. The RS 232 serial standard was not developed with agriculture in mind. The commercial systems are designed to be much more foolproof, and since many are now using CAN technology based on the ISO 11783 standard, they can handle a lot more information, very reliably. For example, they are likely to provide you with an 'as-applied' map that is based on information sent back by the Raven controller on actual rates achieved. This is not possible with the one-way communication flow in my example."
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Variable-rate manure, cheap
Shortly after we received Humburg's reply, the University of Illinois posted a press release about a new low-cost system it is developing to calculate and record how much manure farmers spread and where they spread it.
"We're building a low-cost yet effective system that will incorporate a handheld, consumer-available GPS (global positioning system) unit, a portable computer and mapping software such as FarmWorks or ArcPad (http://www.esri.com/software/arcgis/arcpad/index.html) ," said Jay Solomon, an Extension educator from East Peoria, IL (http://www.urbanext.uiuc.edu/peoria/focus/0001-ag.html).
The test system records the application path and when the applicator was on or off. A background map of the field with buffer (non-application) zones marked can be pre-loaded into the computer. This provides the operator with a visual representation of the field and his location in the field on the computer screen. By watching the screen, the operator can manually turn off the applicator as a buffer is approached. Once the applicator is outside of the buffer area, the operator can then turn the system back on. Ultimately, the goal is for the system to use the GPS unit data to sense when to turn the applicator off and on automatically when approaching non-application zones, such as near a stream or well.
Researchers also want to put a flow meter in the system to collect flow data for liquid manure.
"We're working with a producer who has a flow meter and a GPS unit on a tractor, and we're trying to build the components to go between them," Solomon said.
The "where and how much" data that are collected from this system will generate as-applied maps for producers, animal waste haulers, individuals who do custom application or bigger producers who use their own equipment.
Although there are other systems on the market that are capable of this type of data collection, Solomon said they are extremely cost-prohibitive. Some of the high-precision units can cost upwards of $20,000. Although Solomon does not yet have a final price on their data collection system, he believes that producers can achieve results similar to the high-precision equipment for around $2,500, a much smaller investment.
Because many of the newer tractors come with a GPS unit already on board, Solomon said another option is to find a way to tap into that system.
"But we're mainly looking at a system for the producer who wants to use an older tractor," Solomon said. "Most of the time, farmers aren't going to use their brand-new equipment to apply manure. So we're looking at a way to put consumer-available technology on an older tractor to collect the data."
Solomon said this type of data will give producers an accurate record of manure application from year to year that can then become a piece of their geographic information system (GIS) documentation.
"The more information farmers can get into a GIS format, the better able they are to analyze a yield problem or variation across the field," Solomon said. "Was it caused by drainage patterns? Was it a weed or an insect problem? Or was it fertilizer?"
Solomon said that although the system's primary function is to provide the producer with useful information, it is also helpful from a regulatory standpoint, because stricter government regulations are holding producers increasingly accountable for their manure management practices.
"What if a neighbor files a complaint against a farmer with the EPA because manure was applied in a waterway or close to a well?" Solomon asked. "Instead of pulling out a hand-drawn map that's got some numbers scribbled on the side, the producer can go to the computer, pull up records and say 'Here's how much I applied and here's where I put it.'"
Finally, Solomon said, much of what has been learned about mapping manure applications can be applied to other, similar systems, such as chemical spraying.
"We may be starting with manure," Solomon said, "but once we get the system worked out, there will be any number of ways we can use it."


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Teacher professional development and classroom resources across the curriculum
Defining Reasoning and Proof
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We have reflected on several examples of reasoning and proof in the middle grades through problems in which students look for a pattern and then generalize that pattern into a rule for any number within that problem. In the Building Rafts with Rods problem, the students were able to generalize a formula to find the surface area for any number of rods. This is an example of algebraic reasoning. All aspects of mathematics involve reasoning and proof. In the middle grades, we want students to develop understanding of concepts through algebraic, geometric, proportional, probabilistic, and statistical reasoning.
The Reasoning and Proof Standard is not only part of each of the content standards, it also is closely related to the other process standards, as shown below.
A major part of the Reasoning and Proof Standard is clearly communicating one's ideas orally or in writing. This gives students opportunities to make their ideas understood; to justify, amend, and refine their thinking by presenting their own ideas; and to answer questions that require them to justify their thinking. Additionally, students have opportunities to solidify their thinking by listening to the ideas of others and asking carefully constructed questions.
Problem Solving
You will recall from the session on problem solving that as students work to solve rich mathematical problems, our expectation should be for them to include clear explanations as part of the problem-solving process. Those explanations must include reasons for why they did what they did, as well as support the reasonableness of their results. Problems should also be set in a context in which students have opportunities to generalize their ideas based on the relationships they find. This is accomplished by using a variety of strategies, such as making a table or solving a simpler problem. We saw a clear example of this in the Building Rafts with Rods problem.
Through the use of multiple representations, such as graphs, models, diagrams, and drawings, students clarify their thinking, develop sound reasoning, and often find ways to generalize what they have found to fit a variety of similar situations.
Sound mathematical reasoning and proof are often the result of students seeing connections among mathematical topics. Algebraic reasoning is frequently a result of visualizing a geometric situation. Proportional reasoning is the foundation for many geometric and statistical concepts.
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Cheerleaders at an East Texas high school are fighting their school district's orders to stop using Bible quotes on their signs at football games.
In August, a school with fewer than 500 students 30 miles north of Beaumont, Texas, began painting Bible verses on large paper signs football players burst through at the beginning of games.
But this week, Kountze Independent School District Superintendent Kevin Weldon called for an end to the banners after consulting with a legal adviser at the Texas Association of School Boards.
"It is not a personal opinion of mine," Weldon told KHOU, a Houston television station. "My personal convictions are that I am a Christian as well. But I'm also a state employee and Kountze ISD representative. And I was advised that such a practice would be in direct violation of United States Supreme Court decisions."
That prompted the cheerleaders and their supporters to launch a Facebook page, which attracted 34,000 members in its first 24 hours -- more than 10 times the population of Kountze.
Parents of at least three cheerleaders have hired an attorney and are considering suing the school district.
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Attempts to reach Weldon and other school officials were unsuccessful. But Charles Haynes of the First Amendment Center said the superintendent did the right thing.
"The cheerleading squad is clearly a school-sponsored group representing the school at the football game," he said. "The religious banners, therefore, send a message of school endorsement of religion, even though it was students holding up the banners for the players to run through."
Simon Brown, a communications associate at Americans United for Separation of Church and State, also commends the superintendent's actions. Writing on AU's website, he said students have a right to pray and read scriptures at school -- as long as they are not imposing their faith on others.
"Clearly, those standards aren't being met here," Brown writes.
Another Texas high school prompted the court case that will likely settle the issue in Kountze. In 2000, the Supreme Court ruled in Santa Fe Independent School District v. Doe that student-led and student-initiated prayers conducted over a loudspeaker during football games implied school sponsorship of the prayers, and were therefore unconstitutional.
Nine years later, cheerleaders at a Georgia high school who held nearly identical signs to those used in Kountze were also forced to stop, with school officials referring to the Santa Fe case.
For now, the Kountze cheerleaders and their supporters remain defiant.
"I'm actually thankful for it," Ashton Jennings, a cheerleader, told KHOU. "Because if someone hadn't complained, or if there hadn't been any opposition we wouldn't have this chance to spread God's word in this big of a way."


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The AMCP Diplomat Program is
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who serve as liaisons between the Schools of Pharmacy Relations Committee and
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Diplomat Handbook- Updated September 2018
DIPLOMAT APPOINTMENT PROCESSDiplomat
Qualifications A Diplomat must be an AMCP member who has a sense of volunteerism to
further the mission of AMCP with the schools/colleges of pharmacy. The Diplomat will exhibit excellent
leadership skills to develop, educate and foster schools/colleges of pharmacy
into a positive relationship with AMCP at the local level. The ideal Diplomat must have a commitment to
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communication skills and regular follow-up are key factors to being successful
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The Diplomat will help create a greater understanding and appreciation
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into curricula; and engage AMCP student by serving as a liaison between the
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Diplomat Appointment and Term AMCP members who wish to volunteer to serve as
the Diplomat for a specific school/college of pharmacy, preferably located in
the area of their residence, may apply online through the AMCP website (http://www.amcp.org/diplomatapp/). This link provides a list of Schools of Pharmacy
that currently have no AMCP Diplomat assigned. If the school being
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however, there may be an opportunity for a Co-Diplomat.
Once the request is received staff will
review and notify the AMCP member of their appointment and forward tools to
assist the Diplomat.
The Diplomat will serve in this role until
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has not fulfilled the minimum duty requirements. In addition, each year diplomats will be
asked to re-confirm their commitment as a diplomat via email. The confirmation email will allow diplomats
to "opt-in" or "opt-out" of serving another year. For those schools with academy members
awaiting diplomat positions OR Co-Diplomats for consecutive years, the academy
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decisions. Those choosing to "opt-out"
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Minimum Duty Requirements
The Diplomat will be required to do the following (at a minimum):
Note: Diplomats will receive periodic
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Note: Not all Schools of Pharmacy will have
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School of Pharmacy's interest in managed care and AMCP. The overall goal of the Diplomat is to be the
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SSA became the first Federal agency to publish its FY 1998 Accountability Report
|SSA's Accountability Report for FY 1998 provides
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publication on November 20, 1998 -- less than 2 months after the close of
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Highlights of SSA's Accountability Report for FY 1998 include a Ten-Year Summary of Financial Highlights and Management's Discussion and Analysis (MD&A). The MD&A consists of five sections: SSA's Mission and Organizational Structure; Major Issues Facing SSA; Performance Goals and Results; Highlights of SSA's Financial Position; and Systems and Controls. The report contains messages from SSA's Commissioner and Inspector General (IG), SSA's audited principal financial statements and notes, supplemental financial schedules and management information categorized by SSA's business processes and service delivery interfaces. It also includes Office of Inspector General reports including the report on the Audit of SSA's FY 1998 Financial Statements.
FY98 Report
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From its beginnings in the Mississippi delta as the call-and-response chants of plantation workers to the musically technical and progressive genre that it has become, the blues has an atmosphere and style all its own.
Started 40 years ago by local blues man Steve Tallis, Spoonful of Blues takes in a veritable feast of different approaches to the genre, including swampy New Orleans blues, classic styles like Delta and Memphis blues, fusions like country, soul and gospel blues, and the fuzzed-out psychedelically tinged electric blues. Incorporating guitar and piano-based variations on the genre, Spoonful of blues offers up soulful tunes for a Monday night in the company of some of the greatest legends of music, as well as contemporary artists taking the genre to new audiences.
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Intergalactic Vista from a Lonely Star
This is an artist's concept of the view of the nighttime sky from the surface of a hypothetical planet orbiting an "intergalactic" star in the Virgo cluster of galaxies, based on recent research with NASA's Hubble Space Telescope.
Billions of years ago, the star may have been tossed out of its home galaxy into the dark emptiness of intergalactic space by a collision or close encounter between galaxies. Now an aged red supergiant star, its dull cherry red glow floods the desolate landscape.
Hubble Space Telescope discovered 600 similar "outcast" stars in a small region in the Virgo cluster, 60 million light-years away from Earth. The stars detected are all bright red-giants. Many more dimmer stars, beyond Hubble's detection, may be among the galaxies as well.
These stars are truly "intergalactic" because they are so isolated their motion is probably governed by the gravitational field of the cluster as a whole, rather than the pull of any one galaxy.
The nighttime sky, in this imaginary view, only contains the dim fuzzy glow of elliptical and spiral-shaped Virgo galaxies - individual stars are too far away to be seen. The brightest galaxy in the image is M87, a giant elliptical galaxy containing a black hole and visible jet of high-speed particles.
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I have eaten four 8 x 8 pans of Rice Krispie Squares over the last three weeks. Considering Sean doesn't love Rice Krispie Squares the way that I do, I figure I've eaten about 240 large Jet Puffed marshmallows, over 1 cup of butter and 22 Cups of Rice Krispies.
That's a lot of Rice Krispies.
Although nothing beats the standard marshmallow/vanilla version, after the second pan, I decided I wanted to jazz them up a little bit - introduce a little spice to my vanilla-flavoured world. Since the cooler weather has me thinking of curling up in a cozy sweater sipping on a cup of Chai, I thought about it - why not add a little homemade Chai Spice to the melted marshmallow? Oh yeah - now we're talkin'.
Homemade Chai Spice
In a small bowl, mix:
3 tsp cardamom, 1 tsp ginger, 1 tsp cinnamon, 1/2 tsp nutmeg, 1/2 tsp allspice, 1/4 tsp cloves, 1/4 tsp white pepper
Chai-Spiced Rice Krispie Squares
Buttered 8 x 8 Square Pan
1/4 C Butter + 1 Tbsp
1 package (250g) Jet Puffed Marshmallows
1 tsp Vanilla
3 tsp Chai Spice
5.5 C Rice Krispies
Non-stick Baking Spray
Piece of Wax Paper
fill a large pot 1/4 full of water and bring to a boil - set a large heatproof bowl over the pot to act as a double-boiler - when water is boiling, add butter to bowl - melt - about 5 minutes
when butter is melted, add marshmallows - because the heat of a double boiler is more gentle, the marshmallows will take about 10 minutes to melt, maybe longer - be patient - the slow gentle heat is what will keep your Rice Krispie Squares chewy!!
when marshmallows have melted, add vanilla and chai spice - mix well
add Rice Krispies to melted marshmallow - fold until all Rice Krispies are coated - spoon into buttered 8x8 pan - spray wax paper lightly with baking spray then use to press Rice Krispies lightly and evenly into pan
cool and eat!!
Take two squares with a fuzzy hoodie, a pair of comfy slippers, a French Vanilla Cappuccino, Season One of Game of Thrones and call me in the morning.


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Healclick.com – a new way of looking at your healthJanuary 14, 2014 at 5:41 pm | Posted in arthrits, rheumatoid arthritis, fibromyalgia, joint pai, Me, rheumatoid arthritis (RA) | 5 Comments
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There's a new website launching at 8 am Pacific Time (whatever that is!) and it sounds like (and in fact looks like, as I've been playing in the beta sandbox) an interesting idea.
It's completely free to join and there will be no ads. (How's it funded? Read on!) It's designed by patients for patients and the idea it's kind of social media for patients with a twist. You fill in all your details including your health issues, medications etc. and you can discuss topics, write about anything you want that's treatment/patient etc. related and read what other people are saying. The twist is that you can look at other registered people (you can find me on there as Pollyanna Penguin) and the site will give you a percentage match to other people on the site, based on your conditions, treatments etc.
So OK, how's it funded? Well anonymised and grouped data will be sold to research organisations – both pharma and universities. There's some info on how it will be anonymised http://www.hhs.gov/ocr/privacy/hipaa/understanding/coveredentities/De-identification/guidance.html This may or may not be something you feel comfortable with – it sounds fine to me (but then I'm using Pollyanna Penguin on there!) but I'm sure some people wouldn't be happy with it; well that's entirely your decision – no pressure! 🙂
If you want to give it a go though, here's where to find it: www.HealClick.com, or if you'd like a little more info, have a look here: www.indiegogo.com/projects/revolutionizing-patient-sharing or here:
or Wren over at rheumablog also has a post about it – she's joined too.
I've already had someone link to me – presumably we're a match – or perhaps it's someone that reads the blog, or maybe both. Frustratingly I can't find out right now as I've stupidly lost my password! Because it's still in beta, someone's got to sort this out for me manually, but I'm sure once it's live it'll be as easy as any other site when you lose your password (which I blush to admit I do all the time!) Anyway, I'm excited to find out and I'll be watching the site with interest to see how it develops. See you there?
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Hello 'fitkit' – I have favourited you on the site (I think) … still working my way around it. Apparently the matching at the moment will only happen once a night – maybe in real time later. That's the key thing about the site so I hope they get it working fully soon! That's one GORGEOUS cat in the picture – yours? We have one slightly similar.
Comment by pollyannapenguin— January 14, 2014 #
Thank you!
The matching happens on a nightly basis instead of right away; otherwise the site slows down massively with our current resources. But making it faster and more accurate is our biggest priority going forward: http://bit.ly/1donrdK
Comment by Joey Tuan— January 15, 2014 #
She's adorable! Our 'Enormous Cat' as featured here on the blog is the same colour … but a little older at around 15! He still thinks he's a kitten though.
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Uncovering the Ocean's Biological Pump
Scientists reveal the hidden movements of particles and chemicals in the sea
Dan Ohnemus clearly remembers the highlight of his fourth-grade class in Bourne, Mass. He and his classmates made a satellite call to scientists at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) who were off the Galápagos Islands testing a new generation of remotely operated vehicles (ROVs).
"For a little kid who was interested in science, it was awesome to have a satellite link to a ship somewhere on the other side of the world," Ohnemus said.
He worked hard on his follow-up assignment, a diorama of hydrothermal vents on the seafloor. For the culminating event, the class was invited down the road to WHOI to see scientists actually remotely operating an ROV near the seafloor—in real time, from the auditorium in Redfield Laboratory.
"I sit in that auditorium all the time now for lectures," said Ohnemus, before he earned his Ph.D. in February 2014 from the MIT/WHOI Joint Program in Oceanography. "But I can remember being in there as a nine-year-old." He and his classmates were packed into the darkened, cavernous room with a live view of the seafloor projected on a towering screen before them. They buzzed with excitement as they watched the ROV Jason maneuver around a field of seafloor vents. Ohnemus, laughing, can still recall the stab of jealousy he felt when another kid was picked to try driving Jason by remote control.
As it turned out, that day in Redfield wasn't his last chance to peer into a vent field or go to sea himself on a scientific expedition.
The path to the ocean
Ohnemus is the son of a lobsterman whose working boat is tied up among the dories bobbing in Quissett Harbor in Woods Hole near WHOI. As a kid, Ohnemus would join his dad setting traps in Buzzards Bay.
"I loved going out with him on the boat. I loved to steer. In the summertime I would paint buoys for him."
He even helped his dad monitor water quality at trap sites, as a volunteer for the Buzzards Bay Coalition, doing simple titrations to determine if the water had a healthy amount of oxygen. But fishing as a career seemed fraught with challenges, from the hard labor to frustrating licensing bureaucracy and unexpected diseases that ate away at lobster shells.
A self-described "science kid," Ohnemus cracked open rocks and science books from a young age. At Williams College, he earned double majors in biology and chemistry and then took a break after his rigorous studies to work construction back home in Bourne.
Eventually, science called him back. He answered an ad for a job at WHOI with geochemist Jim Moffett, who was studying trace elements such as iron. These elements are essential for marine life, but they are not evenly distributed in the ocean and are often in limited supply. So understanding where and why trace metals appear in the ocean is a key ingredient to explaining where and why life does or doesn't thrive in the ocean.
Boy in the bubble
As a research assistant, Ohnemus learned how to measure vanishingly small amounts of iron and other elements in seawater—from big, rusty metal ships that continually produced metal particles that would ruin their hard-won water samples. To prevent contamination, the researchers build a plastic bubble lab inside the ship to work in.
"When I was a little kid my sister and I used to build forts out of clotheslines and towels," he said. "So when I went to sea and had a box of clothesline and plastic and had to essentially build a pressurized 'fort,' it was the most natural thing I've ever done!"
Filters pump clean air into the plastic bubble and keep the space at positive pressure. So if there is a leak in the bubble, clean air will leak out, rather than contaminated air leaking in. Work tables and all metal surfaces are covered in plastic, and hairnets, booties, and gloves are de rigueur. Scientists can then work confidently uncontaminated inside the bubble, as the outside surface becomes coated in a film of grime, tiny bits of rusted paint, and flecks of sand from the floor.
Particles paint the picture
Ohnemus brought his training in trace-element chemistry with him when decided to pursue a Ph.D. in the Joint Program. But he switched from studying elements dissolved in seawater to the elements that attach to particles that drift and sink in the sea.
The ocean is full of these "particles," which is a catch-all term for everything from sand that blew into the ocean from deserts, to living cells or their skeletal remains, to pellets of poop sinking downward. Particles can be alive, dead, clumped, decomposed, repackaged, or solid rock. If you can catch it on a filter, it's a particle.
Ohnemus and his advisor, WHOI marine chemist Phoebe Lam, divide the particles they study into two groups, either greater or less than 50 microns, which is roughly half the diameter of a human hair. The particles' tiny size, however, belies the major role they play in the ocean.
"Particles are like the tractor-trailers and trucks of the ocean," Ohnemus explained. "They are moving stuff around, all the time."
Like the tractor-trailers that distribute food from farms to hungry humans, particles in the ocean transport nutrients to depleted areas. They can also transport the equivalent of luxury goods: micronutrients such as iron that are difficult to come by in the ocean but essential for the growth of tiny phytoplankton. Considering that about half of Earth's oxygen is produced by photoplankton at the ocean surface, figuring out what factors regulate where and how well they grow is critical to figuring out how our whole planet operates.
"They are called 'trace' elements because they are found in small, that is, 'trace,' quantities." Lam said. "But their name also could easily be attributed to the fact that many of these elements are useful to 'trace' the movement of water masses and particles in the ocean."
"The stuff inside the trucks is what matters," Ohnemus said, "but sometimes you need to study the trucks themselves, their patterns, to see where they are coming from and how they are getting where they go."
A particular type of evidence
To measure particles at sea, Lam and Ohnemus literally vacuum them out of the water. They wrestle 150-pound, bellybutton-high, battery-operated pumps onto a wire and lower them down to various depths in the ocean. Typically they investigate particles from surface waters down to at least 3,280 feet (1,000 meters) below. Each pump sucks in more than 265 gallons (1,000 liters) of seawater through a filter that captures all the particles.
When the pumps are brought back on deck, the pump head containing the filter is brought to the bubble. Gloves, lab coats, and booties are donned, the filter is withdrawn from the pump with tweezers, the salts are rinsed off, and the filter is set to dry in an oven. The material collected on the filters will range from rusty brown to green, depending where in the world the scientists are sampling. Finally, the filters are bagged and boxed to be analyzed back on land.
"It's definitely strange," Ohnemus said. "We spend days and days collecting these filtered samples, and they can all come back in a backpack."
Back on land, the work really begins. As part of his Ph.D. thesis, Ohnemus developed an analytical procedure to measure 23 different trace elements in particles. The filters, with the particles on them, are completely dissolved with strong acids, and the resulting solution is run through a mass spectrometer to measure the abundance of each element present in the samples.
Priming the pump
The amount of data they generate is gargantuan: On a single research cruise, there may be dozens of locations where they stop to take 16 particle samples spanning a range of depths in the water below the ship. Ohnemus measured his 23 trace elements from every sample, and Lam examined the organic carbon, calcium carbonate, and opal (a silica mineral) in them.
Together, these trace elements elucidate the movement of particles, which, in turn, take part in a process hidden in the ocean on which our whole planet depends. Scientists call this process the "biological pump," because it is driven by life in the ocean.
It works like this: In sunlit surface waters, plankton take up carbon dioxide absorbed by seawater from the atmosphere. Using photosynthesis, they convert it, just as plants on land do, into organic carbon for their cells. They grow, die, and sink—carrying the organic carbon with them and thus "pumping" carbon from the atmosphere to the deep ocean.
The biological pump plays a key role in regulating Earth's climate, because carbon dioxide is a heat-trapping gas that is warming up our planet. "The efficiency of the biological pump," Lam said, "is a battle between how quickly the particles can sink versus how quickly microbes can decompose the organic carbon back to carbon dioxide."
Typically, big particles made of aggregated cells sink faster, efficiently transporting organic carbon to deeper waters or sediments on the seafloor. Fast-sinking particles are better able to usher carbon to a long-lasting burial at sea.
But if particles sink slowly and linger in the upper layers of the ocean, this gives microbes more time to hijack the particle-trucks and remove desirable trace elements. The microbes turn the organic carbon back into carbon dioxide, where it easily returns to the atmosphere and contributes to further global warming. "The microbes effectively cause a leak in the pump," Lam said.
Hither and yon through the oceans
The biological pump functions quite differently in different parts of the oceans, and getting a global view is key to figuring out how the pump and its impact on Earth's climate may shift in the future.
"Considering how big the ocean is and how important it is to the planet, the most surprising thing for me is how few people are studying it," Ohnemus said. "The oceans occupy 71 percent of the planet's surface, and there's just a really small, collegial, well-functioning group of people out there studying it."
Global surveys of trace elements in the ocean aren't something that any one institution or country has the resources to take on. Ohnemus and Lam are part of an international project called GEOTRACES, involving scientists from about 35 nations who are working together on systematic oceanographic cruises to measure and study a wide spectrum of elements, isotopes, and chemicals in oceans around the world. Lisbon, Cape Verde, Bermuda, Durban, Perth, and McMurdo Station in Antarctica are a just a few of the ports of call Ohnemus has made crisscrossing oceans on GEOTRACES and other cruises and measuring trace metals.
"GEOTRACES gets all these people measuring things together—talking together, taking the same samples from the same place at the same time," Lam said. "You start putting the puzzle pieces together, to see whether your measurements and theories work with everyone else's. I didn't fully appreciate how amazing that would be until we started talking to our colleagues and realizing that it does, in fact, all come together."
Assembling the puzzle
An example of the puzzle pieces aligning came when a GEOTRACES cruise passed over the Mid-Atlantic Ridge, a chain of volcanic undersea mountains running down the middle of the ocean. Along the ridge, hydrothermal vents spew mineral-rich fluids out of the seafloor like undersea geysers.
As Lam and Ohnemus collected particles, their colleagues analyzed chemicals dissolved in seawater inside and outside the plumes of fluids emanating from the vents. They revealed a picture of the interacting chemical process at play.
The vent plume was the only place in the Atlantic Ocean where particles were rich in iron oxides. They were formed when iron-rich vent fluids hit oxygen-rich seawater. Meanwhile, colleagues measuring dissolved thorium in seawater found a ghostly absence of them within the vent plumes. Together, they deduced that the chemically reactive iron oxides bonded with thorium, mopping it out of the ocean like a sponge.
Every advance like this in understanding the chemistry of our oceans, even those that people consider esoteric, can be valuable, Ohnemus said. "Who knows what knowledge we're going to need to fix, or even predict, what's going on with climate change? Even though today, tomorrow, next week, it might not be immediately obvious, the knowledge that we get from studying the ocean is going to be really important over time.
"And it is cool to be even a small part of that," he said. "You are really lucky to be an oceanographer."
Now a postdoctoral scientist at Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences in Boothbay, Maine, Ohnemus hasn't lost the sense of wonder he had as a fourth-grader. In the middle of a cruise in the Ross Sea off Antarctica in February of 2011, he grabbed a big cup of coffee to prepare for a 5:30 a.m. phone call to the other side of the world. The satellite phone connection was sketchy, but it held up long enough for him to answer questions from students following the scientific adventure from their high school in Roselle Park, New Jersey.
Dan Ohnemus's research was supported by the National Science Foundation's Division of Ocean Sciences and the NSF's Office of Polar Programs, a Williams College Tyng Fellowship, and The J. Seward Johnson Fund and the Stanley W. Watson Student Fellowship Fund at WHOI.