Getting ready to go...

It's just three weeks until I head down to the Antarctic with two UMaine students and my technician Claudia. So things are really starting to ramp up, getting other work squared away, lab work finished, boxes packed and making sure we have absolutely everything we need to go on a research expedition. We've already sent most of our equipment down to Southern Chile, where it'll be loaded onto the ARV Nathaniel B. Palmer, ready for our cruise. Take a look over at our Expedition Blog, we'll be updating that as we head south!

Ten days and counting

It's just ten days until I head out to Glacier Bay National Park, firstly on a little vacation kayaking around the fjords, then onto work, working with the National Park service for a week to look at specific coral locations around the fjords. Then it's onto Juneau, to work on the Alaskan Fjord Coral Reproduction project, another project i'm particularly excited about. I've just started both those project pages, so be sure to check them out!

In other news Jackie, a Ph.D. student who's been doing a ton of histology in my lab this last few weeks, just had her coral reproduction paper accepted for publication in Coral Reefs - congratulations Jackie!

Aloha!

Dr W.

Link - Glacier Bay National Park Project

Link - Alaskan Fjord Coral Reproduction Project