My current grant ends tomorrow, so I spent 4.5 hours booking accommodations, flights, trains, etc. for the @wscommunity.bsky.social Conference and #MiningImpact3 Kickoff Meeting in September. Fun fact, in order to spend all the funds, I had to pay ~1240 💶 myself first, hoping to get it reimbursed.

Today, artist Louis Braddock Clarke, who is involved in the upcoming #deepseamining research project #MiningImpact3 starting in July, visited us at #NIOZ. I immediately integrated him in my current research and asked him to assist me in measuring corals 🪸 from the Clarion-Clipperton Fracture Zone.