We are gearing up for a new semester in the lab. This year Gil and I will be joined by not one, not two but three other graduate students!
Becky is an up and coming masters student that worked in the lab during her undergraduate degree. We want to congratulate Becky on all the hard work she did in undergrad and making it to the next level of awesome! Becky will be continuing to work on Mesodesma from Caylán in the Nepeña Valley, Peru.
Jacob will be continuing on in the lab analyzing an archeological site in Caylán in the Nepeña Valley, Peru.
Gilman is working on a new project studying Siderastrea from Haiti while taking over my old post as Master of the Lab.
I am staying busy milling samples from Montastraea colonies recovered from offshore Veracruz, Mexico.
Our last incoming graduate student to the lab will be announced with flourish at a later date :) It will at least make me update this more often.
Our many projects are coming along nicely in the lab. Including an ancient oyster study being conducted by Andrew Trahan, an undergraduate working in the lab. Drew presented his work at the LSU Undergraduate Research Conference in the fall. We have a Donax study that is being worked on by Jacob as well as Alex, another undergraduate working in the lab. We have more coral projects than we have time to list that are being worked on. Alison Bojarski, an undergraduate senior, will be presenting at her first conference when we travel to Honolulu, HI in February to present at the 2014 Ocean Sciences Joint Meeting. We want to congratulate her on having her abstract accepted to this conference!
We held SWIRLS sessions at AGU 2013 this past December. We had a wonderful turn out for all of our sessions and want to thank everyone that submitted an abstract and attended our sessions throughout the meeting. We enjoyed catching up with past colleagues and meeting new ones.
Happy researching until next update!
-Robin
