Woohoo! We are officially online! You can now get some DaHoodScientist swag! As many of you know, I always print tons of stickers and love to pass them out at different events or anytime I see you lovely people! Well, that’s not going to change! I will continue to print them and pass them out.

However, as you can imagine… IT AIN’T CHEAP (especially for a graduate student). So, in order to continue doing this, I decided to open up an online merch shop with all of my art. You can order just about ANYTHING you want with my doodles on it. I am not even kidding… they have everything from stickers to socks, shirts, coffee mugs, phone cases, leggings, heck, they even have shower curtains haha.

Please feel free to browse and see if there is anything you like! You can even message me if you’d like the art moved around on a product or the size adjusted or something.

Last favor, I promise. Could you do me a solid and share the page or this post? I’m sure the store will get going but you would do me a huge favor by spreading the word. THANK YOU!!!

The Long Lab had a great research trip this past month! We successfully deployed two big experiments and conducted a lot of surveys! Big ups to my advisor, Jeremy Long, for coming out with us. That definitely gave me a huge boost in confidence as a leader and a scientist. My lab tech, Wendi White, worked her butt off to get us all prepared for the trip but had to leave early. We missed her but she set up for success, even in her absence.

Props to everyone who came out:

Dr. Jeremy Long (Kick-ass adviser, mentor, rolemodel)

Jan “I taught you everything you know” Walker (Senior PhD student in my labs)

Wendi White (the greatest lab tech ever, looking for a PI so HOLLLAAAA)

Sam Folger (an amazing Long Lab undergraduate researcher)

Anthony “Big T” Truong (goofball, newest Long Lab MS student completing a thesis in sarcasm)

Darbi Berry (My good friend, a geomorphologist, check her out at dirtbabe.com)

Austin Wayne (recent SDSU graduate and newest Long Lab researcher)

William Hoyer (US Navy resource manager at SNI, kick ass collaborator, human wikipedia)

Ooh! that reminds me!

Good News! Long Lab friend and collaborator Bill Hoyer got us permission to film and photograph on the San Nicolas Island. I’m currently combing through footage and putting a story together. My tentative goal is to have a finished video in six-eight weeks, have it approved by the Navy and share with you all! I have not started a script but depending on how it goes this may be a longer video or a series of shorter ones, we’ll see!

more soon!

for now, enjoy this beautiful picture of a tide pool. There are not many things more beautiful than the rocky intertidal.

I decided to take a class taught by Eric Sanford this fall quarter at UC Davis, and I gotta say, this might be one of my top 5 classes ever taken. The class is called “Science communication through film” which gives me an excuse to use my affinity for art in a different form. I have been working on a short film about the work I am doing in the Long Lab. Basically, if you have visited my projects section, I have turned all of that (plus some results) into a short 3 minute film.

Aside from all the fun i’ve had learning video techniques and video editing, this class made me want to do this more often. I realize there was a big learning curve but as I get better at the technical stuff, I can see it being a much quicker process. I hope to keep it going! first video will be released on December 5th and from then on I will make more as time permits. For now, enjoy this video of a whale shark over a really awesome beat by my homie Tyler of Ty Tunez.