Jennifer Hill Ph.D.

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Amazingness

I have new snow goals for next time

I’m jealous. This would be so much fun!

This!!!! I want guidelines of how to handle these situations. It’s the Wild West out there.

As a graduate of Texas A&M, I have been horrified by these policies and the intrusion of politics into what a professional and subject matter expert can teach in class.

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A schematic image showing Recent changes in reef zonation of western Atlantic coral reefs, brought about by lack of recruitment of elkhorn, staghorn, and massive boulder corals. Without these key reef builders, the reefs have already measurably eroded. Image credit: Rashpal Dhilon. Adapted from ref. 6, which is licensed under CC BY 4.0. The panel on the left labeled Late Pleistocene to ~1978 shows a vibrant ecosystem, the middle panel (the 1980s) is depleted but still many corals remain (though some key species are lost). The panel on the right (2020s) is like a moonscape with a few hardy species left.

Very effective illustration of what has happened to Florida's coral reefs in response to anthropogenic climate and environment change. The loss of this important ecosystem is all but complete - attempts to rescue it discussed here: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... 🪸🧪🌊

4 to 5 inches of pretty much solid sleet here in central North Louisiana. Glad we didn’t get as much freezing rain which would have made it awful. Currently wishing the road conditions were better so we could effectively help our eastern towns as 20 minutes down the road they weren’t as lucky…..

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5 student abstracts to work on for upcoming meetings. Leading to 3 oral presentations and two posters to get ready for March meetings. This will be the first oral presentations and first posters for all of them. So many many edits….Send me good thoughts for my February yall.

That is a massive amphipod!

You know you live in the South when you have to pull your last pepper harvest in December for the first real freeze. Thanks for the multiple bountiful harvests pepper plants!

Donated!

My colleague gifted me Christmas crabs!!!! Merry Crustmas!

My Xennial Moment today: handing my undergrad a point and shoot camera to take pictures of leaves for image analysis and he has absolutely no idea how to use it. Absolutely none……😂😂🤦‍♀️🤦‍♀️🤷‍♀️🤷‍♀️

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Happy to report my ecology class activity on zoonotic disease and the recent events of bird flu transmission in cattle has firmly changed the mind of at least one student to not drink raw milk anymore……

Finally get a floating plant salinity stress test study going with my undergrads. Kiddie pools all set up outside with different salinity treatments. And now we are forecasted to potentially get over 4 inches of rain 🤦‍♀️
Yay for early morning runs to the store to grab plastic tarps! 😬

Ok this is just super cool!

I need this in my life. My favorite critter!

Yay! And you got a spider crab. They are my favorite.

And then we got back to the dock and my students had boat driving lessons with the LUMCON captains. Learning to drive boats is an important skill.

A day in the marsh collecting periwinkle snails. My students were blessed by the marsh gods (I.e sunk in the mud) many times.

I got to jump in to the bay to remove a derelict crab trap that wrapped around our boat prop. Thank the marsh gods I left wire snips in my dry bag from our last trip!

Dude have you been in my office spying on me and the advice I tell my students….cuz this is pretty much verbatim what I tell them. (At a state school 6 hours from the coast)

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One of my students told me this week that every time she hears all this autism, vaccine, and Tylenol stuff in the news, she hears my voice in her head saying “correlation is not causation” and “ shark attacks are correlated with ice cream sales”

Someone listened and learned. It is possible!

This scandalous share made me laugh out load. And it makes me happy to know the scourge of defunct thermostats is not limited to my campus.

Thanks to being a marine ecologist, I could probably build you a shopping mall out of pvc, vexar mesh, and zip ties.

Ditto. Where is my money?

Which is why we need the engagement of the arts, humanities, and social sciences.
We cannot “science only” our way out of these problems.

Banana slug!

Cool weather. Delicious wine. Big redwood trees. Loving the vacation life away from the Louisiana heat and humidity.