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Vantuna Research Group at Occidental College@vrgoxy.bsky.social |
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Researching the marine environment of Southern & Baja California since 1966. Photos and content by J. Williams, except when otherwise noted.
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Vantuna Research Group at Occidental College
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Just found this photo on my computer again after many years. From an armrest on a chair near the Gulf of California at Camp Archelon, Bahia de Los Angeles, BC, Mexico, circa 2004. 🧪🌎🦑 I've always found it comforting and always wanted it to be how everyone felt about young scientists and their work.
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Any time this comes up, I think: huh, maybe I *should* write that paper with those co-authors
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Had the privilege of sharing this with my students: I gave ChatGPT the same assignment I gave them. In 2/4 cases, ChatGPT chose to make up references that seem plausible (authors that indeed study that organism; real journals; etc) but do not actually exist or exist somewhere entirely different.
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I was wearing a gorilla suit at a college basketball conference tournament game during Spring Break c. 2001. NBC reporter came up w/ camera, asked why I was doing that vs other Spring Break things. My response: "... Don't worry 'bout it" Your response was better, but I still laugh about it.
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What are the features of the new boards vs Rev6? If you're looking to get rid of the old Rev6 boards, we'll take some! We've slowly been turning into a mini-robotics lab over the last few years, and it'd be fun to try to integrate these into our projects.
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never - you'd be off by a factor of 2.2!
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Todd Clardy, PhD
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We are coming into the final days of this auction! If you want an original gyotaku from one of the rarest fish in the sea, you still have time to bid! Proceeds benefit the Department of Ichthyology at the museum.
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Perfect. Reminds me of when I used the term "buttload" in an interview, and in my embarrassment I dryly joked that it was a metric unit, only to see it printed as "metric buttload" the next day. It's now my go-to unit of mass.
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Want to learn more? Here's a short film from 2022 that tells the whole story of Palos Verdes Reef. 🌎🐟🧪🦑 www.youtube.com/watch?v=UGg0...
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Happy Earth Day! 🌎🐟🧪🦑 About to submit our Year 3 Report for Palos Verdes Reef. I'll give you a sneak peak at how the restoration reef is doing. In short: Incredibly well. Figures show biotic benthic cover and fish biomass on the new reef modules, by year. Construction was in 2020.
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Any chance you are attending GeoHab in Norway in May? There is a LOT of discussion of deep-sea mining there, mostly in a non-policy way, but I'd be interested in your take on what is presented there.
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I *should* have been eligible via PSLF in 2017, but my application was rejected because I PAID TOO MUCH (i.e. didn't use the right repayment plan, because I started repaying before PSLF was a thing). With the reworking of rules my loans were finally forgiven 5 years and $12,500 later. I'll take it.
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Angelo Villagomez
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And when I wake up, energized by dreams of colorful fish, I roll out of bed to see my father’s eyes looking back at me in the bathroom mirror. I promise him, just as he promised his father, “Let’s go make some good.”
www.americanindianmagazine.org/story/marian...
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I knew the punchline was coming, but I still enjoyed it very much
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After #OSM24, we stuck around New Orleans for a bit. Did a tour of the Honey Island Swamp and West Pearl River.
Why did nobody tell me that the swamp is kinda gorgeous?
And littered with raccoons??
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Just realized #OSM24 talks are scheduled for 10 mins instead of 15.
Doesn't say much for my reading comprehension.
But if you'd like to see me talk really fast about how EMF from submarine power cables affects crab behavior, I present at 8:50a in Room 217-219 OT41B: Offshore Renewable Energy 🧪🦑🦀
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“But sharks and rays are separated by about 300 million years of evolution - about as much as time when the ancestors from humans diverged from the ancestors of snakes, which means a shark knocking up a stingray is about as likely as a human knocking up a snake." - Dr. Noah Bressman 👨🍳
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🙋♂️ Arrive Wednesday, present Thursday morning!
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Congrats! Looking forward to working with you 😀
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"Bender is my favorite!" Look, baby. Bender is everyone's favorite... but maybe don't emulate him.
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...She might have learned about narwhals from Futurama though, because as an excellent parent, she watches Futurama
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true story. my toddler has a narwhal puzzle, narwhal socks, and a narwhal Christmas ornament. probably some other narwhal things I don't even know about.
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lol “Night: Not for this day”
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In early May, I will be attending a conference (GeoHab 2024) in Arendal, Norway. Also stopping in Bergen for a few days. Looking for suggestions on must see/do things, including breweries/distilleries, family friendly activities, adventure, etc. …also golf. I want to golf there. At weird hours.
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We aren't sampling again this year, but it sure will be interesting to see what happens with estuary fish communities in 2024! Interested in information like this? Check out our paper on San Diego Bay fisheries surveys (free access!): 🦑🌎🐟🧪
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Well, last time we got this much rain in February was 1998. The fisheries survey we conducted in San Diego Bay 2 mos later showed that the entire community changed, largely driven by an influx of Striped Mullet (Mugil cephalus), a catadromous species. 🦑🌎🧪🐟
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It's been raining for 46 straight hours here in Los Angeles. What does that volume of fresh water do to fish populations in estuaries? 🌎🧪🦑🐟
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David Shiffman, Ph.D. 🦈
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Wild Green Memes has been cracking me up all week with movie poster parodies
I wrote about WGM for American scientist magazine www.americanscientist.org/blog/macrosc...
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Seems better than having to send a $35,000 instrument in for repair every few months. I've long planned to just have a flotilla of OpenCTDs at my disposal ... some friends in the robotics lab at Santa Clara are helping us with our vision. Stay tuned!
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"Why is the water so brown and why is there so much sediment on top of the reef?" Here's a good illustration of why, and why we built Palos Verdes Reef modules up to 4 m tall: to withstand the constant flow of terrestrial sediment from landslides that will never stop.
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Well well well, look who finally decided to take up residence in my owl box, 6 years after I put it up 🦉🌎
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Jarrett Byrnes
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Interested in #GIS in #rstats? I've recently heavily modified the @thecarpentries GIS in R curriculum to focus on #seagrass beds in Casco Bay for COBALT cobalt-casco.github.io/r-raster-vec... - this is all sf and terra, using tidyterra (w/ ggplot2) and leaflet for plotting. 🌍 #geo
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Todd Clardy, PhD
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The newest Pacific Footballfish in the @nhmla.bsky.social Ichthyology Collections is resting comfortably in a tub full of formalin in the fume hood. In a couple of weeks, she’ll be fully processed and in a tank in the collections!
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William B. Ludt, PhD
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Looking for a postdoc to work on microplastics in our museum specimens! We are extending the application window for this position for two more weeks and are flexible on starting date. If you know anyone interested, please forward.
workforcenow.adp.com/mascsr/defau...
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Vantuna Research Group at Occidental College
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Been a hot minute since we felt and earthquake here
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Awesome! Nice to know that there are at least two more specimens available to view. We used the preserved one at Cabrillo Marine Aquarium for the key in Miller & Lea 2nd edition since it was the only one available at the time!
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new one? looks to be in great condition!
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With storms coming in next week, we are officially calling it a field season! Hard to describe how much effort it takes to survey 361 dive sites in six months, but maybe the maps will help. Zoomed in views of Palos Verdes and Malibu to show the absurd coverage we have in Santa Monica Bay! 🌎🦑🧪
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My favorite tree - I have one growing in a pot in my back yard!
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I've been trying to describe this to students over the last few years – ENSO effects used to be fairly predictable, but now it is just another feature on the world map, and nothing about it is predictable any more.
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I really wish digital photos were a common thing in 2001 when I was interning at Shedd and we walked in one day to find hundreds of newborn gar hiding in the weeds from hungry mom and dad.
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This was just published *in print* today in Continental Shelf Research.
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... if your institution has access.
authors.elsevier.com/a/1i67S-JmAw... if your institution doesn't have access, available to Jan 6 2024.
After that, just ask! Happy to share.
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Also, the video pitch is epic.
"Arendal: Because you know you want to make the 'Frozen' obsessed children in your life jealous."
vimeo.com/548403473
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Welp, looks like a few of us VRG'ers are headed to Arendal, Norway in May for GeoHab 2024!
Who else will be there? 🦑🌎🧪
geohab.org/geohab-2024/
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There was such a good community of science etc folks there ... tragedy that it has all been undone. Glad to discover that there are really effective ways of getting/receiving info here thanks to feeds. Hope it keeps building!
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Anyway, my Spotify wrap list is full of Disney-related songs because I have a toddler. How about you?
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I just deactivated our exTwitter account. I hadn't logged on in a while, but just found our work sandwiched between intensely anti-semitic AND anti-Muslim material. We obviously don't condone either of those things. I'm at a loss for words that aren't full of anger, and we won't put up with that.
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Every time THE video comes up on Reddit, I'm amusing to see some form of this comment.
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