25/04/2026
What a week at the in Charleston!!
The week didn't start off great with my Grammi dying on Sunday, but the RAW family was so supportive and awesome the entire week and really helped me through!
The next day, I kicked off the sessions bright and early with a talk at 9am along with some cool invert talks! Throughout the week, I connected with former students, ,, . Andy gave a terrific talk on micro fragmentation of corals in Hawaii. I watched current students give an awesome talk on a 2+ year project with sting rays.
Back in Des Moines, students volunteered at a booth during a talk at the and one of our junior lab managers provided the introductory remarks for the speaker that night!!!
I was also surprised with the news of "another" teaching award, 😄, but I'm not sure if I can post about it yet.... chatted with some long time friends, met some new ones, and learned so much from laser therapy in fish, putting the science back into aquariums, and how to connect with folks on a fishing pier to help sharks, to name a few.
And made some plans for exciting future work to support !!!!!
