AMT Blog

Generally speaking I’m one of those people who thinks of 4:30 as the hour before finishing work for the day or, on occasion, the time in the morning that my teenage son brings his Boeing Fiesta Zetec into land outside the house and gives the engine one torturous final kick, which rattles the windows in a 50m radius before the thing finally dies along with the Rap Band in the boot.

This is  my second AMT, having participated on AMT-18 last year, doing essentially the same analysis with a colleague from PML but with a greater number of analysers. As I sit here, two/three weeks out of Falmouth waiting for the mid-day Conductivity, Temperature and Depth (CTD) sample, I take the opportunity to look though the port-hole of the Chemistry Laboratory at the sea with the sun reflecting off giving it a silver grey colour, PML and home seem like a different world.

Carolyn doing an early morning pre-run check on the nutrient analyser.