You might wonder – I rather hope you wonder – why the Oyster’s Garter has been so silent this week. I have been running frantically about preparing for a month-long research trip to Curacao, off the coast of Venezuela. (as well as helping Eric host our Very First California Seder.). I’ll be studying an invasive tunicate, Trididemnum solidum, that is overgrowing Curacao’s coral reefs. I will also be serving as a dive buddy for a classmate studying traditional Curacao fish traps.
I’m not sure how frequently I will have internet access, but I will post on my adventures as much as possible. And I’ll be contributing a mighty deuterostome-related entry to Coral Week. I’ve never been diving in warm water before, and I expect to be spoiled utterly rotten. I also expect to come back totally jacked, since I’ll be filtering liters and liters of water (for particulate organic carbon, if you’re curious) with a hand pump.
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you, my dear, live a fascinating life.
Have a great time!
Forget “Tropical Fun”, you’re more like the “James Bond” of ocean ecologists…jet setting around the world to save the lives of natural habitat populations. Come on! Don’t tell me you don’t have a mini submarine made by Aston Martin that turns invisible?
“I like my salt water shaken, not stirred”
I’m so jealous. I don’t get to go anywhere more glamorous than the basement to do summer research on my mice and my DNA. But then, given that you are looking at randomly sampled wild species, I’m guessing that you have to do all kinds of linear regression on your data, so perhaps it’s a fair trade. Enjoy!
Bye, Mim! Have fun storming the warm water turnicate castle!!
I’m tryin’ to hold down the SIO fort for you (for the week, anyway)! Just remember, Didemnids make awful sushi!