More Wet Pix

Bubbles - Biscayne Bay Reef Sweep

Here's me drifting around trying to untangle some line without wrapping myself up. It was for the Biscayne Bay National Park Reef Sweep clean-up day.






It was good fun and good dive practice, and was actually on the one sunny day in two weeks of rain.

New Student Picnic at Prez Shalala's Spread

A little rain shower, but good food and a beautiful location on a canal in Coral Gables, with band (Suénalo) and some new RSMoids.

Biscayne Bay Sampling

A couple of shots showing the sampling routine for the western mangrove shoreline of Biscayne Bay. 

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...

Talbot Visit

Anita and Paul from Chattanooga came to visit

After a day spent frying at the beach, I had to take them to Jimbo's.


... and Robert Is Here for milkshakes and fruit after a trip to the Everglades.

This is an older picture of Chattanooga. It is a nice town, and a close friend may be moving back there if he has the cojones....