The four airlines I fly the most all lined up

My mom is a wordsmith

Maybe my issues aren't so bad

Dickbag E. mathaei burrowing into a large Porites colony. Somehow I think this is the first time I've seen an urchin burrow like this on a live coral colony. Anyone know if this is common?

Pilot work didn't produce the results I expected but at least the algae were pretty

Meet #FirstYear #ARCSScholar Noam Altman-Kurosaki, a Herz Global Impact Award recipient and a #Biology PhD candidate at Georgia Tech. He researches understanding the processes that drive coral reef decline and recovery. Welcome, Noam! gtsciences #IamARCSAtlanta ARCS Foundation Inc.

Big algal rafts + poor viz + loads of stinging condoms in the water = short field day.

It'll get windy just in time for me to need the glass again.

Flying gurnard (?) seen going scrit scit over the sand in Papetoai, Mo'orea. It was not Super Stoked with me.

Really cool seeing a video game outlet doing great (local!) sci comm that will likely reach a completely different audience than "regular" scientists would!

Poor vis, squirrelly fish, and bad photographer = crappy pics, but found Nemo and his parents.

"Sample size was reduced from n = 10 to n = 9 on the final day of monitoring due to tourist interference."

Fresh uni in my sediment core last night. Love a midnight snack!!1!

Massive W for Georgia Tech / gtsciences !! Stoked to be at a place that believes in investing in their grad students (both literally and figuratively). cos.gatech.edu/graduate-stipe…

Found a squatter on me and Julianna Renzi 's experiment today

A belated halloween spook - found a stonefish (super venomous) on my plots a couple cm from where I was grabbing my corals (pictured here next to one of my cages - 2.5 cm mesh).

Why bite corals when you can bite cameras?

Turns out if your boss forces you to stay home you actually will publish more. Lame. Anyway, new pub! We found that fertilizer addition enhanced predation on  corals and also increased algal overgrowth of a slower-growing but hardier species. int-res.com/abstracts/meps…