Exmouth & the Ningaloo Reef, Australia
While I’m in Australia, I’m working in the remote town of Exmouth. The landscape here is the classic red soil and small shrubbery that I picture when I think of Australia (largely based on [...]
France: Lab Work
2022-12-03 The final two weeks of the trip were spent in the lab. Since polyps are small and don’t have many defining features, it is very difficult to identify the species just by looking at [...]
France: Snorkeling Surveys
2022-11-18 The Bages-Sigean Lagoon is in the south of France – it’s a small, shallow body of salt water that is mostly closed off from the Mediterranean Sea. Each year, two species of [...]
Japan Week 4: TOURING A RESEARCH VESSEL AND FINAL REFLECTIONS
2022-07-29 This week we toured Hiroshima University’s research vessel, the Toyoshio Maru. In Canada, it can be quite difficult to get ship time for research, so I was jealous that students in the [...]
Japan Week 3: Ferry Spotting Surveys
2022-07-22 This week I accompanied Professor Uye and his post-doc, Dr. Hideki Ikeda, on one of their regular spotting surveys. They board passenger ferries to watch and count jellyfish, then they [...]
Japan Week 2: Jellyfish Fisheries
2022-07-15 Time is flying by and my second week in Japan is already over! This week we drove 5 hours to Yanagawa to work with some fishermen that fish for edible jellyfish (Rhopilema) in the [...]
Japan Week 1: Lectures & Visiting the Kamo Aquarium
2022-07-08 I officially finished my first week in Japan today and it’s been an amazing experience so far. I flew to Tokyo and spent one night to give myself enough time to change airports. I [...]