Pictures
This section contains photos taken during my PhD (from 2008-2014). I like to call this section "Life as a Graduate Student (But, Only the Fun Stuff)". See blurbs below for more details.
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The Currie Lab. From left to right: Julio Rivera, our advisor Dr. Doug Currie, me, Ruben Cordero, and Patrick Schaefer.
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My first time collecting black fly larvae.
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Cytogeneticist and collaborator, Dr. Gerald Shields, with his portable lab in Montana, USA.
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Black fly larvae everywhere!!!
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Doug Currie sporting his new beard.
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Top: Doug Currie's black fly birthday cake, made by lab technician Kristen Choffe and me; Bottom: black fly larvae attached to a rock - see the resemblance.
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An elephant at the Royal Ontario Museum!!!
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Team 'Toad and Tarts' from the Royal Ontario Museum rocking the Race for Dignity Challenge. That's me, second from the right.
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Zip lining in Costa Rica before the 7th International Congress of Dipterology. I'm second from the left.
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Gingerbread Doug (made by The Currie Lab) and the real Doug Currie collecting in Montana, USA.
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Collecting in British Columbia, Canada.
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Here, I'm drying larvae and putting them into a preservative.
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A pile of black fly larvae.
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Doug Currie at the Queen City Yacht Club, Toronto Islands, Canada.
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Lab badminton!!! Patrick Schaefer and Chris Blair versus Ruben Cordero and me.
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Patrick Schaefer and the bald eagle have the same wing span!
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Honey, I shrunk the lab.
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Team 'Evolution' ready for rapids after the 1st Joint Congress on Evolutionary Biology, Ottawa, Canada.
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Team 'Evolution' taking on Ottawa river's Devil's Tongue.
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Collecting in New Mexico, USA.
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Searching for gold in Colorado, USA. I'm at the left mining for black fly larvae, while the men at the right are panning for gold.
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My collecting partner, aqua-man (aka. Dave Winter), recording GPS coordinates in California, USA.
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BIG SCORE!
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Collecting into the evening. What a beautiful view!