The Hood Lab is very excited to welcome two new graduate students this fall! Sophie Dziekan and Grace Watson will both pursue master’s degrees with Dr. Hood.
We have also had quite a bit of change in staff this summer. We said farewell to longtime office manager, Melissa Marburger, who retired at the end of June, as well as technicians Matthew Sens and Megan Garvey, who both moved on to graduate school at the end of August. We welcomed two new technicians, Ian Crumrine and Haley Miller. Ian will jump on to the Maumee River projects and Haley will count zooplankton samples on the long term Lake Erie plankton abundance study.
Many Hood Lab members attended the department of Evolution, Ecology, & Organismal Biology welcome event on Tuesday, August 20 at the Museum of Biological Diversity. They enjoyed food and a chance to socialize with others in the department. All of the new graduate students and postdocs in the department were introduced in an informal ceremony of sorts, in which new people receive an EEOB mug.