Time to retire from X. So long all.

Tried and true tradition and cure for jet lag when arriving in the UK - the SUNDAY ROAST. Energized for tomorrow’s ICES ASC meeting

Six for six receivers popped up on our mid Chesapeake array including several Ocean Tracking Network loaners

Day on the Bay tending our Mid-Chesapeake telemetry array. Hot and breezy in front of TS Debbie

Best souvenir ever! Big supply of “Kyoto University President’s Special Curry” thanks to my sister in law. Very thoughtful.

Mid Chesapeake backbone array deployment. CHECK!

congrats to Tailwinds Evan Kostolecky on his presentation at the AFS Tidewater meeting in Newport News on Black Sea bass seasonal changes in condition ramping up for offshore wind impact evaluation.

Here with Dr. Kimura and his lab from AORI. True bucket list item for me. I have been a long-term fan of sumo, which apparently is an old guy thing in Japan. Still, I think Kimura-sensei and I got some enthusiasm and new fans from our younger colleagues.

First encounter with giant mottled eels on Amami Island Japan. Remarkably tenacious colonizers of both pristine conserved rivers and highly channelized ones.

Yes, although I’m having a dream mini sabbatical here in Kashiwa Japan, I am indeed doing work. Here, biochronologizing hundreds of otoliths in my deluxe office at AORI.

Land of the setting Sun from my window and Kanto regional perspective. Incredible late fall day in the 70s hiking Fuji’s eastern cousin - Mt Tsukuba

Recent UMCES-CBL postdoc, now AORI assistant professor, presents on hundreds of archived Hudson River eel otoliths and shows a large reduction in production over the past 80 years owing to summer marine heatwaves. Stay tuned: striped bass are next.

UMCES CBL exchange student Hirai-san from 20 years ago presents Japan-wide growth models for prized Fugu (puffer fish) resources at Japanese society of fisheries oceanography Sapporo meeting.

En route to visit family in Kagoshima. Mt Fuji still sporting summer colors this warm November, and growing greener as the timberline has migrated 30 meters with warming.