@jgcbryozoa.bsky.social
Lab Technician at Smithsonian Institution (NMNH) Invertebrate Zoology (IZ) lab. Strong love of bryozoans and Invertebrate Zoology 🪸🦞🦀🪼🦑
starfish in jars
Appropros for #taxonomistappreciation day a NEW video by GFOE's Art Howard and Caitlin Bailey- the Power of Collections- a feature on #okeanos museum collections featuring myself, Martha Nizinski, Andrea Quattrini (@corallab.bsky.social) and @agcollins.bsky.social
www.youtube.com/watch?v=STtg...
Dr. Andrea Quattrini holding up a big orange coral while standing in a room full of drawers that contain corals.
Congrats to Dr. Andrea Quattrini (Coral Curator, SI NMNH) for winning The Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers!
This is the highest honor bestowed by the United States federal government on outstanding scientists in the early stages of their independent research careers!
A round jellyfish with glowing golden stripes on the bell and long tendril tentacles against a background of deep sea sediment.
An anemone with many white thin tentacles
A close up into the centre of a feather duster worm with radiating striped white and brown tentacles
A semi-translucent octopus with a spotted mantle and blue tentacles.
Happy New Year from invertebrates that look like fireworks.
Credits
Jellyfish: OET/Nautilus Live
Anemone: Cathy Lewis
Feather duster worm: Pauline Walsh Jacobsen
Octopus: Schmidt Ocean Institute
