Stacy Kim, Ph.D. |
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As an Adjunct Professor at
Moss Landing Marine Labs, I am privileged to mentor graduate students
without being obliged to teach classes. This allows me to provide
field–intensive educational experiences such as the ASPIRE project. My
most fond moment in the preparation for this trip (so far) was having
three graduate students and a technician, all decked out in their
incredibly warm full Antarctic dive gear, sweating underneath the
not-quite-balmy-but-definitely-not-polar waters of Monterey Bay,
practicing taking infaunal cores. Ah, the pride, benthic ecologists in
training! Benthic Ecology, the study of how seafloor animals interact, has
taken me to both the Antarctic and the Arctic, to hydrothermal vents in
the deep sea, and to the mysterious murky waters of Elkhorn Slough and
Monterey Bay. My interests in disturbance ecology encompass both
"anthropogenic" (human-caused) and "natural"
disturbances. It is only in remote and relatively pristine environments
like the poles and deep sea that one can hope to tease apart the
differences between the two. I hope you will enjoy expanding your
knowledge of ecology through sharing the ASPIRE 2004 adventures with us.
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