And All Was Silent

This week was the last week of classes for the Spring semester at FSU, so today, the field marine ecology students presented their completed projects. They have worked so hard throughout the semester designing projects, testing and retesting methods, learning how to analyze their data, and interpreting what their findings mean and how their knew knowledge may shape future experiments. As the professor said today, an understanding of the research process from start to finish empowers individuals to use logic and reasoning to evaluate scientific claims. We have helped support our students and given them the skills to communicate science to non-scientists, assess scientific findings published in the media, and hopefully helped them to become better writers.

Since the biology building partially flooded because of a sprinkler that went off, we had to relocate our class to a different building on campus, and funny enough it was one of my old teaching spaces when I supported the biology for non-majors course--pictured above. It was bittersweet to be back in an old teaching classroom, if just for the day, but a nice way to wrap up the semester. 

In other news, I am working to finish edits to a manuscript that I've been collaborating on with scientists from Sweden, and I am hoping to have this ready for submission by the end of May. This will mark the sixth research paper I have written during my time at FSU, and I'm really proud of the work I've accomplished and the wonderful support and feedback I've received through this international collaboration.

Next week's blog will be slightly delayed, but for good reason. Stay tuned until next Saturday 05/04 to learn why!

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