inviting you all to my Lab's Open House

For those of you in Central California, and the SF Bay Area, I would like to invite you to visit Moss Landing Marine Laboratories Open House and 40th Anniversary Celebration. It is this weekend, Saturday the 9th and Sunday the 10th from 10 AM to 4 PM. Sorry if this is late notice, but I forgot to invite my own family until yesterday.

All the labs will be open for the public to peruse, and there will be speakers giving seminars on current Marine Science research, as well as students at all the labs to explain what we do. I am a student of the Ichthyology Lab, and there are several other labs including Vertebrate Ecology (turtles, marine mammals, and birds), Invertebrate Zoology, Phycology (kelp and algae), and various Oceanography disciplines.

I am in charge of Parking and Logistics, so will be running around like a chicken with my head cut off, but I would love to meet any of you who have the time to attend. Ask for Paula, I'll be the Asian girl with a walkie-talkie
If I'm not working parking, you can ask one of my staff to contact me via walkie-talkie and I'll come down to say hello.

for information, including directions to get there, go to www.mlml.calstate.edu

Here is an article in a local newspaper about the event
http://www.santacruzsentinel.com/archive/2006/September/07/local/stories/06local.htm

I'd be thrilled if some of you could make it!

awww, I really wish you could come, too. Especially since you wanted to be a marine biologist, and still do (don't we all?). My thoughts will be with you, Ms. Chickiee!

Jeff, I feel your pain. Our Open House is usually in the spring, but we moved it to fall this year to coincide with the 40th celebrations. Last year, we had to use planks to prevent cars from getting stuck in the mud, and the Nature Reserve that owns the land for the surplus parking was mad at us for tearing up the field! It's just an empty lot, no trees or anything, just weeds and wild grasses. Sheesh, what's the big deal?

We're "only" expecting about 6,000 visitors. It's a huge departure from the 100 or so students and staff that are normally there. Augh, my stomach's hurting just thinking about it!

sumthin fishy said:

you had to pick the weekend Im working :mad2: If im off early ill be sure to come see ya

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Sorry, my bad for not posting this earlier. I, in classic grad student fashion, put off all preparations and thoughts until this week. So it didn't even occur to me until today that some of you might be interested.

Like I said, I didn't even tell my own family until last night. But I had a reason to put that off. They've never seen me at work, so I'm embarassed about letting them into that part of my life. At least I'll be busy the whole time, so I won't have to spend all day with them :

I spent a summer there when I was an undergrad at UC Davis! I loooove that lab, especially since they added the new North Wing. I especially enjoy the large display tanks they have with rockfish, flatfish, and monkeyface pricklebacks. I miss that place, sniff.