Student Life
A day in the life in St. John, USVI: Harvesting larval reef fish and coral reef seawater microbes
Written By: Laura Weber About the author: Laura Weber is a PhD candidate in Biological Oceanography in the Massachusetts Institute of Technology – Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (MIT-WHOI) Joint program. She is a member of the Apprill lab at WHOI and studies microbial (bacteria and archaea) interactions in coral reef ecosystems to get a better…
Read MoreDay in the life blog series – What’s it’s really like to be a Ph.D. Student
Graduate students can be somewhat mysterious creatures, haunting labs in the wee hours of the night, or disappearing for months on end to venture to some faraway place, collecting data and samples of critters that they’ll struggle to pronounce after a few days of sleep-deprived night watches aboard a ship. There are no graduate student…
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