This open ocean research expedition took me from Uruguay to Barbados. I investigated viral abundance, diversity and the impact of viruses on bacterioplankton communities.
![Final Cruise Stations no Lines_web](https://sites.middlebury.edu/eggleston/files/2014/11/final-cruise-stations-no-lines_web.jpg)
Research stations from Montevideo, Uruguay to Bridgetown, Barbados. We traveled ~5200 nautical miles, equivalent to the distance from Boston to Tehran or Paris to Bangkok.
For more information on this research trip check out this Deep DOM blog.