(she/they) BA, MSc, AAUS Scientific Diver. Art | Ecology | SciComm | Justice
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ALT This is a striking underwater image of local patch dynamics on the seafloor. In the center of the photo is a large Pycnopodia sunflower sea star, and surrounding it is a nearly perfect ring (halo) of empty white rock space, which is about the width of the seastar itself, and then outside of the halo are hundreds of purple sea urchins, with some red sea urchins mixed in. The urchins are packed so close to each other it is hard to see the sea floor. The image conveys how the predator Pycnopodia creates a landscape of fear for these urchins, which can sense the "smell" of their predator approaching. Photo was taken by Lynn Lee in Haida Gwaii, Canada, and used with permission.
ALT Another photo of empty space near a Pycnopodia sea star and the ring of purple sea urchins around it, fleeing from it's advance. This image is taken underwater at the level of the sea floor, so that the viewer can see the piles of hundreds of urchins in the background, a kelp forest fringe in the shallows, and the blue/grey Pycnopodia in the foreground. Photo is by Lynn Lee, taken in Haida Gwaii, Canada. Used with permission.
ALT Samantha and I are standing next to her poster which is in the background, both of us giving a thumbs up.
ALT The picture shows Aaron and J’mie standing next to his poster, and both of us are giving the thumbs up. We are wearing out masks!
ALT Scuba tanks laid out in the loading dock, truck in the background.
ALT The team all loaded up next to my truck, which has work gear and surfboards all loaded up and grad student Samantha Persad and project tech Aubrey Taradash and I.
ALT Picture shows me taking a giant stride into the ocean at Chetco point area.
ALT Using the portable tank fill station at the storage locker. Picture shows the compressor filling scuba tanks next to my truck in a storage locker parking lot.
ALT Kendall Smith holds a red abalone in Charleston, Oregon. Boats are docked in the background. (photo by Lynn Ketchum)
ALT the image is a picture of Samantha Persad and I wearing our drysuits, with a calm ocean in the background and some of Oregon's signature rocks emerging from the ocean. The sky is overcast and grey but bright and cheery. We both have really big smiles and are both doing the shaka hand sign.
