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Day 88: Snorkeling with puffers, day and night

By: Vanessa Wamsley October 29, 2018August 7, 2019

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I had the pleasure this weekend, to make the acquaintance of a very large white-spotted pufferfish during an afternoon snorkel. He and I first locked gazes underwater, his black eyes encircled by bright white rings and stark toothy beak in a wide O, as surprised to meet me as I was to spot him, perhaps?

Day 17: Snorkeling in a Kwajalein tide pool, or: What it’s like to swim in an aquarium

By: Vanessa Wamsley August 16, 2018September 23, 2018

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When I first started telling people I would be moving to Kwajalein, I never knew what reactions to expect. I got a lot of “That sounds great for you, but we’ll really miss you.” But one response from a computational biologist stands out in my mind: “Why would you move there? There can’t be very much species diversity, right?”