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Last Saturday, Shaunna and I went to Maui for the day to collect Cladophora specimens. It might seem crazy to go to Maui just for the day, but when you’re only about a half-hour plane ride away, and you need to keep your specimens alive for experiments, a day tip (and a long one at [...]

I returned to Hawaii this past Thursday – the breezy trade winds were a welcome relief from the scorching temperatures of the east coast! Who knew you’d have to go to the tropics for a break from the heat?   Shaunna has been working very hard while I was gone for my meetings on the [...]

As Shaunna mentioned in our last blog post, I had to head back to the mainland for a while, first for a teaching workshop and then for the annual meeting of the Phycological Society of America (PSA). This is a great meeting for learning about the latest in algae research (phycology = the study of [...]

This past week Shaunna and I spent a lot of time setting up out first experiment to test the salinity tolerance of Cladophora sp…this is much easier said than done! Science involves a lot of tinkering sometimes. Shaunna writes more about it in this week’s blog post: I am nearing the end of my second [...]

This blog post is courtesy of Shaunna… We are halfway through my first week here in Hawaii and it is such a beautiful place to be. I can’t say that it is the typical island scenery that one would think; where everyone lays on the beach drinking piña coladas, but it certainly does have that [...]

Shaunna won’t be here until later in the week, so our project will get into full swing next week. I’ll write more about our research then… In the meantime, it’s a long weekend and I’m in Hawaii so that means it’s time to go to the beach. Today we went to my favorite on Oahu [...]

Aloha! After a busy year as a new UNH faculty member, I’m back in Hawaii! I lived here for 2 years before coming out to New Haven, working as a postdoctoral fellow in the Botany Department at the University of Hawaii. I worked in the laboratory of Dr. Alison Sherwood on an NSF-funded project aimed [...]