This photo gallery post documents the typical fieldwork day of autumn season: (1) Wearing the wetsuit and entering the seawater; (2) Placing a quadrat on the seafloor; (3) Photographing the quadrat with a GPS-based camera; (4) Counting eventual burrows within the quadrat; (5) repeating steps 2-3 until it is allowed by the battery of the camera.
After this, the step is exiting the water and… hot chocolate!
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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