As you can probably guess from the title of this post, Emily Basile received her Ph.D. today! At 1PM this afternoon, she presented her dissertation, "Persistent Organic Pollutants in Diamondback Terrapin Tissues, Eggs, and Sediments in Barnegat Bay, New Jersey", to the public. Around 2PM, Emily defended her dissertation to her committee. Then at 3PM, Dr. Emily joined the Avery lab, the ecology lab, and the Department of Biology at a party in her honor.
Next week, John Wnek will be defending his dissertation and hopefully earning the title of "Dr.". Don't worry ... I'll keep you updated on his progress!
In other news, Jules, Abby, and I are all in the process of getting ready for field season. Jules has been keeping herself busy trying to determine how she can walk two different beaches for eight hours a day watching for nesting terrapins (hmm ... sounds like she may need some help from Earthwatch volunteers). Abby just got a spectrophotometer so that she can analyze the different color wavelengths of the terrapins for her morphology study this summer. And I have my fingers crossed that this will be my last field season. I still need to expose a whole bunch of terrapins (53 to be exact) to boat engine sounds and I need to make some ambient sound recordings in the bay.
We're going to start unpacking the camp on June 7 and then the first Earthwatch team will join us on June 13. Bring it on, field season ... we're ready to catch some terrapins!
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