My #2018Recap Highlights:
-our research/#scicomm on the cover of a journal, newspaper, and university magazine!
- welcomed my first graduate students to #GarLab!
- the amazing @caseyelizabetha took me on #GarTrek40 for my 40th!
- Cecelia David joins our family!!!
Bring on 2019!

What’s that? Oh just re-living GARVANA on the TV https://youtu.be/hSvn6YfPZd4 #GarTrek40

Side note about this pic from #GarTrek40 (surprise bday trip planned by @caseyelizabetha this year). SO. MANY. GARS!!!

To understand the gars, I must SWIM WITH the gars! This was so surreal for me I couldn’t even gar pun; also because I was underwater. #GarTrek40

Digression correction: above 🐢 isn’t a Gopher Tortoise, but these are (also seen on #GarTrek40), bonus Burrowing🦉

Brief digression: this Gopher Tortoise we encountered is definitely giving me side-eye... #GarTrek40🐢👀

GIANT Longnose Gars! Many of these fish were over 4ft long, some beasts 5ft!!! #GarTrek40

Big thank you to Captain @caseyelizabetha for steering us “to the gars!” amidst branches, alligators, and even manatees! #GarTrek40

I mean, I can’t even...
LOOK at all these Florida & Longnose Gars!!! #GarTrek40

Right below the surface, SO MANY GARS! #GarTrek #GarTrek40

I AM SO EXCITED YOU HAVE NO IDEA!!! #GarTrek #GarTrek40

Get into nature this #EarthDay! @caseyelizabetha surprised me with a Florida #GarTrek! Saw my first wild Florida Gar in 13 years, and this sarcopterygian too! #GarTrek40