Time to fly
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By , on August 15th, 2009 10 comments   Education, Industry & Government, Scientist!   , , ,  

Graduation Day at TAMU-CC I expected an obstacle course on Commencement Day, just one more hurdle to clear, but the book length manuscript was delivered, and the defense was over, so I was hooded by Dr. Tom Shirley, happy the PhD was complete. My little girls were not so happy. They thought I had . . . → Read More: Time to fly

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Announcing La Defense
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By , on July 13th, 2009 6 comments   Conservation & Environment, Education, Scientist!   , , , , ,  

This went public today over the TAMU-CC listserves, the first attempt to tie all my deep-sea coral research from the last three years together into four tidy little paragraphs. DISSERTATION SEMINAR NOTICE COASTAL AND MARINE SYSTEM SCIENCE PROGRAM DEPARTMENT OF PHYSICAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES TEXAS A&M UNIVERSITY-CORPUS CHRISTI SUBJECT: Distribution and Diversity of Octocorals in . . . → Read More: Announcing La Defense

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Dissertation emancipation
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By , on July 6th, 2009 6 comments   Scientist!   , , ,  

When the Graduate Student Handbook says PhD candidates will be submitting a book-length manuscript, they’re not kidding. Thursday I turned over my draft dissertation – 185 pages of deep thoughts about octocorals in the Gulf of Mexico. Within 5 minutes of discussion about the weight of the paper (~ 3 lbs. ) and the . . . → Read More: Dissertation emancipation

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