Summer Crew for 2008

From left to right: Matthew Whalen, Jonathan Lefcheck (REU Intern), Will Tarantino, Althea Moore, Paul Richardson, Rachael Blake, James Douglass, and Emmett Duffy

                          

Jon with Samone Brockett and Sarah Donelan, also REU interns (left).  Matt, Rachael and Samone conducting a marine isopod and amphipod feeding assay (right).

April and May 2008
Matt and Rachael on the Eastern Shore
James, Matt and Rachael at Friday's Coffee Hour

 

Net full of Idotea and a few Gammarus (May 2008)

 

The Goodwin Island Zostera marina field site

                                   

                 Althea riding out to the field site                                                      "Captain" Matt!!

                          

                                Shade Recovery                                                             Idotea Rockin the House!

 

March 2008 Survey

     

   

The invasive colonial tunicate Botryllus schlosseri          Althea and Emmett inspecting the net for grazers

Marine Biodiversity Lab in 2007

      

          Paul, Will and Lindsay in a VIMS skiff                                   Matt dip netting eelgrass bugs

        

      Lindsey enjoying an occupational hazzard

VIMS Marine Science Day 2007

Every year, around the middle of May, VIMS opens up to the public for Marine Science Day. It's always a huge hit! We set up a station with microscopes, an aquarium and a bug wrangling station. The kids love to use the eye droppers to catch the bugs and then look at them with the microscope.

 

There's also the Paper Parade. Caleb was an Idotea, which is one of the seagrass mesograzers.

Marine Biodiversity Lab in 2006

       

Paul and Kristin counting bugs in the cosms

        

                                                           Rachael counting bugs in the cosms

The VIMS Evolutionary Ecology (Rogues?) Gallery
  
Suzy suits up!
Eastern Shore of Virginia, October 2003
 
 
Paul stocking grazers in mesocosm tanks
 The late, great Ferry Pier (post Hurricane Isabel)
 
 
The world without grazers
Now doesn't that look nicer?
Ampithoe longimana, common grazing amphipod 
of eastern North America
Seagrass amphipods, by Conor Duffy, age 5 
   
Synalpheus brevifrons, 
sponge-dwelling snapping shrimp from Belize
Sponge-dwelling shrimps, by Conor Duffy, age 5
 
 
Filming social shrimp at Carrie Bow Cay, Belize
Smackdown!  Two male Synapheus regalis mix it up
 James supervising field cage deployment
The Gang, summer 2001
 
 
 An end and a beginning: 
Jen Rhode's dissertation defense party
 Congratulations Dr. Macdonald!