Monday, June 28, 2010

Welcome Megan Gyoerkoe

We have a brand new lab tech, Megan Gyoerkoe!

Megan will be wrangling with the jellyfish for the summer. So far she's been working on removing the algae from the walls of some of the older tanks in preparation for the arrival of some new jellyfish and tunicates. She's done a great job so far, hopefully we'll be able to convince her to stay in the fall!

We're hoping to be able to handle a new shipment some time next week. I'll try to post some pictures of the tanks in their current states.

We're in our new home of Chapman 303 for now and we're enjoying the joys of a sink. It looks like there will be construction going on in Chapman during which we may have to relocate to Phillips again. We're thinking of moving the tanks to the one room we have with a sink, though it may be tight in there. After all of the dust clears (no pun intended) it looks like we will have rooms on the 3rd and 4th floor of Chapman. The aquaria will be in their own room on the third floor and the electronic equipment will have a home on the 4th floor. Things seem to be moving slowly but steadily toward finding a home. The jellies are very excited.