A major highlight was @uasoutheast undergraduate (and Eckert Lab field tech) @jessmwhitney winning the “Best Undergraduate Poster” award for her poster “With a little kelp from our friends: examination of understory algal communities and associated fishes in SE AK.” Go Jess!

New publication alert 🚨featuring @apecs_ak co-authors!

This past weekend the Eckert Lab attended and presented at the Western Society of Naturalists’ annual conference and had a blast diving, talking science, and collaborating with fellow scientists!

So excited to be at my first WSN presenting results from my PhD! Was lucky to kick off the conference yesterday with a dive charter off Anacapa Island #WSN2022

#wsn2022 We're looking for a few SCUBA divers who want to share a charter to dive Anacapa Island Nov 10.

Happy #PhycologyFriday !! ⭐️ @uafairbanks @uafcfos @juneau_cfos_uaf #APECS #Research #GradStudent #PhD #Phycology #Macrocystis #Macrocystispyrifera #Kelp

Beach seine from a bird’s eye view !! 🌱🐟 Thanks for another wonderful field season Prince of Wales!! 🌿 @UAFcfos #APECS #Alaska #Research #Eelgrass #MarineEcology #Beach #Seine #Field #FieldSeason #GradStudent #PhDLife #Nearshore #Fish #Habitat #Drone

Can you spy the wasting disease??? 🌱🌱🌱 PhD candidate, Lia Domke, shown here determining the density of eelgrass (Zostera marina) during a habitat survey. 🤿 #GradStudent #Research #MarineEcology #Alaska #WastingDisease #PhDLife #Eelgrass #Ecosystem #FieldSeason

Site name: Nossuk Bay. Sediment type: MUD MUD !! 🪱🌱 @uafairbanks @uafcfos @juneau_cfos_uaf #APECS #MarineEcology #Eelgrass #Seagrass #WastingDisease #Research #PhD #GradStudent #StuckintheMud #FieldSeason

Beach seine days are the best days!! 🐟🌿 Below: PhD candidate, Lia Domke, holding a Silver-spotted sculpin (Blepsias cirrhosus). 📸: @undrwatercarter #APECS #Alaska #Research #PhdLife #GradStudent #Eelgrass #Kelp #BeachSeine #SeaOtter #Sustainability #FieldSeason

POV: you’re doing field research in Southeast Alaska. 🦀🌿🔬🦦 #APECS #Alaska #Field #Research #MarineEcology #Fisheries #Data #GradStudent @UAFcfos

New paper looking at #seagrass wasting disease including some APECS co-authors!

That feeling when you get your first piece of data for your PhD !! Congrats @undrwatercarter, here’s to more crab and smiling faces this field season!! 🤩🦀 #APECS #Alaska #Research #GradStudent #PhDLife #Crab #MarineBiology #MarineEcology

Things a field ecologist cannot live without: field guides, buckets, and an endless amount of zip ties. 🐟🪣 Throwback to last field season beach seining around Prince of Wales Island, AK. #throwback #APECS #marineecology #seine #research #alaska

Publication alert 🔥 Huge congrats to @nicole_laroche. Research from her M.S. work at @UAFcfos was published today in @MEPS_IR. Shoutout to co-authors Sydney King, Matt Rogers, Heidi Pearson, and @ginnyeckert_ak. Check out the paper!

My final chapter from my #PhD is published today in @MEPS_IR. Huge thanks to my co-authors @jbschram @ginnyeckert_ak @awegalloway and the amazing @apecs_ak lab and @UAFcfos. Check out our paper

I am recruiting a M.S. student to join my lab at @UAFcfos, for a fully-funded graduate research assistantship. The student will explore the use of spatio-temporal methods for generating abundance indices that leverage data from multiple trawl and fixed gear surveys in Alaska.

Want to learn about #seaotters and #seagrass in Southeast #Alaska? Tune in to my PhD defense Mar. 6th at 1030 AK time. https://t.co/vR2eXBuOzI #eelgrass @apecs_ak @earthwatch_org #SeagrassAwarenessMonth

Had a great few days sampling #eelgrass for #GlobalSeagrassSurvey @SImarineGEO. Thanks Lia, Maggie, and @mattsoncat for your help. Our site was at 58.6636 -134.9179. Furthest north site for the project @jslefche?

Tubesnout eggs on Stephanocystis geminata from yesterday's beach seine in understory #kelp #fisheggs #brownseaweeds #apecs_ak #seakscience #fieldwork2019