by Katrina Munsterman, Ph.D. student in the Coastal Ecology and Conservation Lab in EEB I always wanted to be an actress, faking illness in dramatic attempts to trade the classroom decorated with construction paper flowers for a day spent counting banana slugs on the mossy floor of a redwood forest. I grew up with a…
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Taking time: an ecologist’s reflection on studying a new system
by Katrina Munsterman, Ph.D. student in the Coastal Ecology and Conservation Lab in EEB Stay neutral. Steady breathing. Focused vision. Check your gauges. Swim straight. Lay the transect tape. Check for eels. Identify and count every.single.fish. Stay neutral. Learning how to scientific dive was no simple feat, but I knew that it was necessary to…