Chris Freeman

Marine Ecologist. Teacher. Lover of animals you don’t have to chase

[Chris Freeman @thatsasponge]

Our paper is finally out! Learn how photosymbionts contribute to niche partitioning in 10 of the most common Caribbean sponge species https://t.co/gXSMZcuwkl

@thackerbob @SpongeSymbiont @cole_easson

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https://t.co/IFdP3XPvTX

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It has been a great couple weeks in the Freeman lab. We had three student poster presentations @BenthicEcology meeting in NH and then undergraduate students Kate Davis and Josie Shostak won awards for their #sponge research at the Expo @CofC.

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@CofC undergraduate and graduate students gave excellent poster presentations yesterday at the @BenthicEcology meeting in Portsmouth, NH

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Charles Taibi was the first @CofC student to present at the @BenthicEcology meeting in Portsmouth, NH! Charles did an awesome job presenting his work with @ErikSotka on SC salt marshes.

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@taxochica @SpongeSymbiont @cole_easson @thackerbob Good guess! What gave it away?

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Apparently the first steps for #nanosims include making your #sponge samples look like insects stuck in amber and then admiring beautiful sections of sponge tissue @SpongeSymbiont @cole_easson @thackerbob

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@alicia_reigel @cole_easson @SpongeSymbiont Good point. I still have it but Hunt has his own music to get him through

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When the isotope lab wants an empty but pressed and rolled tin capsule for each of the enriched sponge samples you sent them and you sent them 450 sponge samples… #blanks #isotopes @cole_easson @SpongeSymbiont

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@cole_easson @mtsu_biology Dolphins?

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@CofCBiology students in my 213 class started their research projects yesterday @GriceMarineLab and two got to survey the end of a rainbow. @CofCSSM

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@cole_easson @mtsu_biology Did you find any?

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@SpongeSymbiont @alicia_reigel @cole_easson @MoteMarineLab @AmyApprill Boat rental today? Don’t forget to take “before” pictures

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This goldfish drives better than most people

[Ronen Segev @ronen_segev]

I am excited to share a new study led by Shachar Givon & @MatanSamina w/ Ohad Ben Shahar: Goldfish can learn to navigate a small robotic vehicle on land. We trained goldfish to drive a wheeled platform that reacts to the fish’s movement (https://t.co/ZR59Hu9sib).

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@CofC now has a @DiversAlert first aid and oxygen kit for our scientific diving program! More soon on this great opportunity with @ErikSotka, @ORGAatCofC, and Dr. Heather Spalding in @CofCBiology

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One group of @CofCBiology students bravely risked their fingers yesterday to collect and measure fiddler crabs @GriceMarineLab

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@GriceMarineLab is still the best classroom around for @CofCBiology

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Isotopes and Arctic woolly mammoth movement! https://t.co/CdScfqrdT6

[Cara Fiore @SpongeSymbiont]

Cords + salt water = send the grad student in 😂 go Hunt #Sponge #Symbionts @cole_easson @thatsasponge @alicia_reigel

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Today was a big day @MoteMarineLab as we started our first #SIP experiment. Four #sponge species were “pulsed” in seawater spiked with sugars and amino acids enriched in the heavy atoms of three elements! Now #thechasebegins #takingitlight #tripletracer