 Two weeks ago I made the trek from my home state of Arizona to my new home of Baton Rouge, Louisiana. I have joined the Chakrabarty lab (check it out here), working alongside fellow PhD student Caleb McMahan, and masters student Valerie Derouen. I am extremely excited to be working in, and helping collect for, the fish collection at the LSU Museum of Natural Science (search our collection here). Since being here I have already started to help collect samples for the museum. I joined a cruise in the Gulf of Mexico, collecting fish with benthic skimmers at various depths along the Louisiana coast and continental shelf. Unfortunately the trip got cut short when hurricane Isaac changed directions and headed straight for us. Even though mother nature didn't allow us to collect all we wanted, I still managed to get some interesting, and valuable samples. Keep posted for more news about collection trips and other scientific advances coming out of LSU's ichthyology lab.
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