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Tag Archives: travel
Happy Thanksgiving: COVID-19 style
It was the Ides of March in 2020 when I moved from California to Europe. Thanksgiving marks March 271st. I was still a postdoc in Jonathan Eisen’s lab at UC Davis and my contract would have ended in the end … Continue reading
Posted in adaptation, career, postdoc
Tagged COVID-19, pandemic, postdocs, Thanksgiving, travel
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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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