Terp in Biscayne

A rare diamondback terrapin a couple of hundred meters off the mangrove edge in the warm as bath-water Biscayne Bay last week on our three-day sweep-trap sample trip.

(sorry - couldn't figure out how to rotate for the web page - I'll work on it)

  

Florida Bay Shots

Some pix from my last trip to Florida Bay out of Flamingo:

Joe and Maria

Hard Work

New Gig - Sampling Shrimps in Florida and Biscayne Bays

Here's a quick post on my new J.O.B. It looks like it's going to be good, with pleasant, smart, reasonable, hard-working people with whom to work. And selfishly, it should fit multiple needs for me. 

I'll be working as a contractor through U of Miami's CIMAS catch-all division with Joan Browder of NOAA's SEFSC South Florida Everglades Ecosystem Restoration project (more on the project, more).  As well as being interesting work that should help pay some rent, I should have access to some good advice and data on the Biscayne and Florida Bays ecosystems from which to mine some sort of master's thesis work.  This position will also make it easier to take some courses at UM-RSMAS towards my master's degree, as I may get some financial help and the school is right across the street from work...

Sarkozy Runs

(Photo by Remy De La Mauviniere -- Associated Press)

"I am not deterred . . . by the accusation that jogging is right-wing," he says. "Of course it is right-wing, in the sense that the facts of life are generally right-wing. The very act of forcing yourself to go for a run, every morning, is a highly conservative business. There is the mental effort needed to overcome your laziness.


By Joel Garreau
Washington Post Staff Writer
Saturday, July 7, 2007; Page C01