Tag: <span>thermal disequilibrium</span>

After braving the home of the world’s worst weather to study the affect of barometric pressure on pipette volumes, the ARTEL Extreme Pipetting Expedition team embarked on its next mission to explore the impact of another environmental condition on laboratory data. The destination: Yellowstone National Park, boasting the world’s largest active geyser field, and more than 10,000 geysers, steam vents and mud pots. The ARTEL team landed in the 2.2 million acre park and realized they were certainly not in Mount Washington, New Hampshire anymore (the venue for Mission #1). As hot springs bubbled and a geyser spewed steam up to 135 feet in the air just a short distance from Expedition members, the thermal variation at Yellowstone National P­­­ark was evident…