Lab tech Garret O’Donnell (Garret O’Donnell) is a graduate of the University of Florida. As a Floridian, Garret is thrilled to be a part of projects that quantify his home state’s benthos and can be found most days behind a microscope or on top of a sieve. #getyourhandsdirty

Shoutout to sampling superSTARS Jess S Glanz and Garret O’Donnell! Checkout this nine-armed sea star (Luidia senegalensis) found during our April sampling of the Indian River Lagoon.

Recently, the benthic lab’s very own Garret O’Donnell had the pleasure of introducing 3rd grade students at The Benjamin School The Benjamin School to the beautiful and strange world of infauna. Special thanks to SmithsonianMarineStn for providing the critters on display! #Science #Outreach

#naturejournalingweek is all about appreciation, creativity, inspiration, care, and celebration. #naturejournaling can take many forms, from Dr. Holly Sweat's detailed entries to Garret O'Donnell's Garret O’Donnell fun doodles. So get outside and get sketching!

It sure was a blast celebrating World Oceans Day with everyone who came out to the aquarium yesterday! IMO every day is #WorldOceansDay and a chance to take care of the ocean and admire the beauty of everything it offers, like the Cirratulid worm Garret O’Donnell is displaying here.

Last week we said goodbye to an invaluable member of our team, Garret Garret O’Donnell. While Garret was part of the BEL at SMS, he was full of puns, our professional selfie-taker, an enthusiastic educator, and an expert invertebrate identifier and photographer who favored the ‘pods.

Please welcome Garret, our new MS grad student, studying coral population genetics University of Guam. Garret is most interested in coral stress response, diversity, and specimen photography as a means to better understand the reefs of Guam and the broader Pacific arena.

Garret joins us from the Smithsonian inFort Pierce, FL, where he studied soft bottom infauna communities and previously worked on kelp forest invertebrates in Friday Harbor, Washington Friday Harbor Labs with Gustav Paulay