Bye bye Gustavus. Hello Juneau!

Early this morning I headed to the Gustavus airport, to be met by a thick fog that kept us grounded for 4 hours. 

The Gustavus airport, one of the cutest airports i've ever been in, with some of the friendliest staff. This morning as I was lugging my bags down towards the airport, the check in lady stopped her car and picked me up, took me back to my house to get the rest of my bags, and took me to the airport. She even let me do her drive around the airstrip - woo hoo! 

The smallest plane i've ever been on! 

...and I got to sit in the front seat! Bye bye Gustavus, I hope to see you again next year! 

Flying over the Icy Straight

And heading into Juneau. From a city of 300, to a city of over 40,000! 

This morning I left Gustavus and the Glacier Bay National Park project, and headed over to Juneau to begin the Alaskan Fjord Coral Reproduction project. Be sure to check out the updates on those pages - here!

Aloha!
Dr. W.

Updates on Glacier Bay National Park Corals!

The first expedition to search for deep water corals in Glacier Bay National Park has begun - check out updates here!

Off to Alaska - 19th Aug - 12th Sept

I'm packed and early in the morning i'll be off, so be sure to check out the project pages linked to the right - there are automatic updates posted here and twitter feeds too. The first project will be Glacier Bay National Park Corals (19th Aug - 1st Sept) and the second is Alaska Fjord Corals (3rd - 12th Sept).

There will be chunks of time where I won't have internet, email or even electricity and running water, so the updates may be a spread out, but i'll update as I can so bare with me!

Aloha!
Dr. W.

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