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Personal Perspectives
Up Close and Personal with a Mangrove Root
I got a lot of funny looks at the airport when I opened the oversized cooler for...
October 2017

Personal Perspectives
Bringing the Western Flyer, and History, Back to Life
As a first year graduate student in marine biology, I shared a large office with...
August 2017

Personal Perspectives
Underwater Parks in 3-D
As I readied myself and my camera for a dive in Yellowstone Lake, the largest body...
January 2015
Personal Perspectives
Ocean Sampling Day – Taking the Pulse of the World’s Oceans
If you are a bird watcher you have probably heard of the Christmas Bird Count. The...
June 2014

Personal Perspectives
Coralline Algae: The Unsung Architects of Coral Reefs
Stare at a tide pool and you will often see a crust of pink coating the bottom. No,...
January 2014

Personal Perspectives
Ocean Acidification Excites Boring Sponges
Boring sponges get a bad rap. Their own name betrays them, announcing to the world...
March 2013

Personal Perspectives
Sneak Peek: Future of Coral Reefs in an Acidifying Ocean
Scientists don’t often get the opportunity to travel through time. But nestled...
August 2012

Personal Perspectives
Ray Bradbury and the Sea
Today Ray Bradbury died. It might seem strange that I'm writing about Bradbury here...
June 2012

Personal Perspectives
Whale fossils on the mainland, and into a CT scanner
After a few long days of hard work on the island, we were finally able to excavate...
May 2012

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Dispatches from the Field: Treacherous stream crossings and a new fossil find
We departed from Port Renfrew on Tuesday morning on the Michelle Diana, a boat...
May 2012

Personal Perspectives
Excavating a "toothed" baleen whale from Vancouver Island
The whales that we see in today's world can broadly be split into two groups: those...
May 2012

Personal Perspectives
Smithsonian Scientists Describe a 'New' Fossil Whale
Monodontids, the group of whales that includes the belugas and narwhals swimming...
March 2012