Another glamor video of the R/V Nanuq with island Beehive B in the background, featuring a drone-curious tufted puffin. Video collected after a seabird survey at Beehive B by J Yogi Norton pilot yours truly. ADF&G permit 21-106

Congrats Seth et al. on this great work - moving conservation toward incorporating more complete systems, and hopefully yielding more effective outcomes!

For my Duke Bass Connections at Duke course, students collaboratively assembled a timeline of Antarctic exploration and resource exploitation. I think it was a fun online exercise and really shows how the two histories overlap and intertwine: sutori.com/story/a-timeli…

I love a good academic soapbox rant: here is Henry W. Elliott in 1882, complaining that the public assumes that all #pinnipeds look like harbor seals. [from "Seal-Islands of Alaska"]

Nice work Patrick! It's been a blast helping with your field work and watching the data come together, pushing the frontiers of integrative ocean sampling across scales.

I would like to know the vaccination status of Santa's reindeer before he enters our house please thank you 😷

Today I wrote a paragraph for my discussion that boils down to "We made these decisions and got these models. You could make different decisions and get different models."

Grateful to be included in this paper - Patrick Gray is really advancing the limits of oceanography at scales that are so hard to study. I'm proud that I get to assist in fieldwork and write-ups!

Just want to share this again, if you have a student that identifies as a Black women or YOU identify as a Black women in the fields of ecology, evolution, or marine science: SIGN UP to a part of #BWEEMS. It is a FREE community of Black women, helping and supporting each other.

I'm proud to share this poster summarizing work done by our Bass Connections at Duke team throughout the two-semester course I've been leading. Our students tackled some challenging data-wrangling skills in #gis and #remotesensing to study the changing biogeography of Antarctica!

P.S. I made this poster with ArcGIS and PowerPoint because I'm trying to defend this summer and don't have time to learn illustrator. Just my measly contribution to the poster riots in #AcademicTwitter!

Grad and postdoc positions in aquatic bio with a top scientist and all-around wonderful human being @ Kellogg Biological Station

I'm proud to finally share my first first-author publication (!), a summary + analysis of fine-scale seal and sea lion distributions on land, w/ drone data from a collaboration of Duke Marine Lab UAS, the Aleut Community of Saint Paul, and NOAA's Marine Mammal Lab. cdnsciencepub.com/doi/full/10.11…

Come work with us! We're looking for a highly motivated UAS pilot/geospatial analyst to support the ongoing development of new & existing research & conservation programs. Position based in Durham, NC & has 2 years funding w/ possibility of extension. careers.duke.edu/job/Durham-RES…

Interested in using drones to study ocean color? Check out Patrick Gray's new paper in ASLO #ASLO_Methods for details! Robust ocean color from drones: Viewing geometry, sky reflection removal, uncertainty analysis, & survey of the Gulf Stream front aslopubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/lo…

Grateful to be a part of this! Always a pleasure to ✍️ and publish with Patrick Gray and our colleagues working on ocean color.

Found this visualization during some post-dissertation cleanup: elevation data from satellite (in 2-m resolution!) overlaid on Sentinel-2 imagery of SW Anvers Island. Special thanks to PGC for generating the DEMs that rounded out my chapter for Palmer LTER!

If I leave academia, this is the top reason why. I make less as a postdoc at a private university than I did 7 years ago, working as an academic editor with only a bachelor's degree. And I am expected to move every couple years until I maybe get tenure? nature.com/articles/d4158…

I've been lax on Twitter lately, but I definitely want to share my new paper on the state of drone research with seals and sea lions! Thanks David W Johnston for your mentorship, encouragement, and coauthorship on this project. Take a look, it's open access! doi.org/10.1111/mam.12…