March 17, 2008
Greetings from Monterey, former land of the mighty sardine, current land of Stanford’s Hopkins Marine Station. Hopkins is my home for the next two weeks as I find out how fast I can learn tunicate mariculture and population genetics. (I really hope the answer is “in two weeks, of course!” But I doubt it.) Updates might be somewhat spotty since I fear my brain will not have room for anything unless it is related to tunicates. However, I still need to eat (particularly squid tacos) and would love to meet up with any readers in the area. Anyone from MBARI out there?
Researchers perpetually search for ways to break down human interactions into components, but even when their results are obvious, they can be interesting. In a recent paper in the