Now it´s time for data analysis

Back in Portugal it´s time to go through all the data collected.

From field work, Telemetry and genetics.

Our Sharks: Why did they aggregate? Where did they came from? Where do they go after they aggregate? Are there any sibling relationships between the Sharks found in Florida waters when compared with others collected in other geographically spread out areas? These are some of the question marks that need to be solved.

A Work in progress.

Lab Work

After a few months doing field work, it was time to get back into a lab.

A great thanks to Kevin and Joey for their knowledge sharing and good working environment.

And Cheers to all the staff at the FM, specially to those who shared the same facilities and help out in several ways!

Broken down Laptop..

Needless to say that having your computer breaking down if foreing lands, is something that can really nag you a lot.. reason why this blog hasn´t been updated for a while.
But it wasn´t just the hard-drive; graphic card, usb ports..non-working..duh!

Besides the risk of having lost all the data, since the hard-drive wasn´t working (fortunatly backups exist for a reason, although their not so easy to make when your cd-writter was already screwed up...) there is also the problem of loosing less expensive ways to comunicate. Either by email or skype.