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Tag Archives: seaweed
Kelp connections
Aisha O’ Connor wrote this post as part of Dr. Stacy Krueger-Hadfield’s Science Communication course at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. Currently a MS student in the Krueger-Hadfield lab, she is interested in algae and conservation. Aisha tweets @Aisha_MOC. We can … Continue reading
Posted in bioinformatics, blogging, conservation, demography, ecology, evolution, haploid-diploid, Science Communication
Tagged Blogging, Kelp, scicomm, seascape, seaweed
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Kelp forests: the underwater woodlands
Aisha O’ Connor wrote this post as a project for Stacy Krueger-Hadfield’s Conservation Genetics course at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. She sat in on lectures while she was at UAB as part of a British Phycological Society Student Bursary … Continue reading
#Evol2017 catch-up — or remember that time when someone stole your field gear?
To borrow from our lead in paragraph for post-Evol2017 wrap-ups: Two weeks after the closing day of the 2017 Evolution Meetings, the Molecular Ecologists have all dispersed from Portland, though items from the Krueger-Hadfield lab didn’t make the return journey! Still, the conference … Continue reading
Posted in blogging, community, conferences, conservation, fieldwork
Tagged Evol2017, fieldwork, seaweed, theft
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Three Views of Japan
By the time we reached Sendai, we were heading into our fourth week of sharing one tiny suitcase of clothes, while bags of silica were luxuriously spread across three large suitcases! Games of Jenga in the teeny rental cars were … Continue reading
Posted in blogging, community, evolution, haploid-diploid, natural history
Tagged 2015, Field work, Gracilaria, Japan, seaweed, Sendai
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Along the Mackerel Road
We left Hokkaido and flew to Osaka where we collected our next rental car (our first teeny tiny one!) As our flight was delayed due to weather in Hokkaido, we decided to break the journey between Osaka and Obama (it … Continue reading
Posted in adaptation, blogging, community, haploid-diploid, natural history, population genetics, speciation
Tagged Gracilaria, Japan, Kamiya, sampling, seaweed, tourist sites, Ulva
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In the northern biosphere
As regular readers will know, I’ve spent the summer traveling around the Northern Hemisphere sampling the red seaweed Gracilaria vermiculophylla, an introduced alga in North America and Europe. I’ve rewound to the beginning of the summer in order to highlight our … Continue reading
Posted in adaptation, blogging, community, haploid-diploid, natural history
Tagged Gracilaria, Hokkaido, Japan, seaweed, travel
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Dōmo arigatō
Along with my collaborators, Erik Sotka, Courtney Murren, Allan Strand and our battery of students, we have embarked on an intense summer field season. Erik and I are leading the effort of sampling populations of the introduced red seaweed Gracilaria … Continue reading
Posted in adaptation, blogging, community, evolution, haploid-diploid, natural history
Tagged collaboration, Gracilaria, invasion, Japan, photos, seaweed, travel
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