Friends, I am back home! Vacation was refreshing and reinvigorating and everything that I needed. My first day back at work, I sat down with my planner and made a list of all the deadlines I had to meet in January 2025. A paper review due on the 6th, a draft presentation due before a meeting on the 7th, a report due on the 31st - the list was long. I took a deep breath. January is going to be a big month for me, but then again, every month is a big month for me. That's just life on the tenure track.
The first mountain I climbed this week was one of species identification. My technician, Sarah, has picked steadily away at our
benthic survey project and has a collection of
challenging unidentified specimens to show for it. We sat together for
several hours, going through the specimens one by one.
Here are some of my favorite specimens!
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| Baby sea urchin! |
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| This guy was really challenging to identify, but we think he's an acorn worm. |
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| This is a beautiful, almost textbook, example of a cirratulid polychaete. |
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| This "spaghetti worm" was found inside an empty snail shell. |
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