Today I continued conducting quadrat sampling in the amazing Ligurian Sea. This series of photos shows a quadrat sampling session – from snorkelling to spotting a burrow with a mound!
Each and every quadrat-based observation is georeferenced by GPS, so that in the laboratory I can obtain quantitative maps of burrow distribution.
andrea: I am Andrea ‘Tracemaker’ Baucon. My research interests focus on palaeontology, with particular emphasis on the study of life-substrate interactions. In my research, I addressed three main questions: (1) What drives the distribution of burrows? (2) How do mass-extinctions modify burrowing behaviour? (3) Do life-substrate interactions exist beyond Earth? I tackled these questions using quantitative methods (fractal analysis, network theory, geostatistics) and analogy with modern life-substrate interactions (actuopalaeontology).
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