Talking again
Tuesday morning saw me back at Austral and giving a talk to an accumulated audience of salmon industry representatives, ecosystem health researchers from IFOP and a range of students and academics from Austral. The talk, on the use of fish disease for environmental monitoring introduced a totally new concept to the researchers in the region and holds considerable promise for future collaboration, particularly via QA schemes such as BEQUALM.
Lunch once again consisted of more urchins (this could get dangerous) and the locally captured 'Merluza' (hake). In the afternoon, Prof Caravajal, a sprightly 68 and still active after his delivery of a morning lecture on science philosophy to local school children drove me to a freshwater salmon production facility (pre-smolt) north of Pt Montt.
The urchins took immediate effect and I soon had the birds flocking to me...the most impressive was this beautiful little humming bird that came to feed on the honeysuckle bush in front of me. Even managed to get a couple of shots in focus despite its ridiculously rapid movements (yes John, this is possible!!) and its short stay at the flower. Nice.
Tuesday morning saw me back at Austral and giving a talk to an accumulated audience of salmon industry representatives, ecosystem health researchers from IFOP and a range of students and academics from Austral. The talk, on the use of fish disease for environmental monitoring introduced a totally new concept to the researchers in the region and holds considerable promise for future collaboration, particularly via QA schemes such as BEQUALM.
Lunch once again consisted of more urchins (this could get dangerous) and the locally captured 'Merluza' (hake). In the afternoon, Prof Caravajal, a sprightly 68 and still active after his delivery of a morning lecture on science philosophy to local school children drove me to a freshwater salmon production facility (pre-smolt) north of Pt Montt.
The urchins took immediate effect and I soon had the birds flocking to me...the most impressive was this beautiful little humming bird that came to feed on the honeysuckle bush in front of me. Even managed to get a couple of shots in focus despite its ridiculously rapid movements (yes John, this is possible!!) and its short stay at the flower. Nice.
posted by Dr Grant Stentiford at 3:52 PM
1 Comments:
Glad to see you are keeping busy... Matt L read out your last entry while we were celebrating Tom's b'day with Muffins.... if it wasn't for Ruth and John making smutty comments it would have been a touching moment!
You should stop working so hard... you're making it difficult for the rest of us to "work overseas" they will be expecting results now!
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