Super proud of our lab! Undergrads took home three awards from international summer research! Thanks to my graduate students for excellent mentorship! And @SysEB_Entsoc for all the hard work! #ESA2019@carpophilus@pyractomena @nsaxton55 @BYU@BYUKennedyCtr
We were invited to watch land diving in Pentecost. It is to bless the yam harvest. #intense. We’ll name a new species of damselfly after the ritual (see other post) BYU study abroads are amazing!!! @BYUKennedyCtr@BYU@carpophilus
You are looking at the gnarly hand of my new killer MS student @nsaxton55 which is holding our most recently discovered new species from Vanuatu. We’re going to name it after the local practice of land diving (see next post). #newspecies#Conservation@BYUKennedyCtr@BYU@byubio
We also have been working with the marine fireflies here. Check out how almost all of the second to last abdominal segment is bioluminescent. That is a first for me! @pyractomena@dr_firefly@skbrannoch@UCSB_OakleyLab
You know you are in a different place in the world when one of the most deadly animals in the world is constantly at your feet. #seasnake#poison#beauty