Hi Tonmo folk,
My name is Megan Lilly and I work as a marine biologist for the City of San Diego's Ocean Monitoring Program. While my direct duties rarely involve cephs, I do go out to sea a few times a year during our community trawl sampling and I spend the day doing my best to "save the cephs" after identifying and enumerating them of course.
Prior to working at the City of San Diego (many, many years ago....) I was lucky enough to spend over a year working with Dr. Eric Hochberg at the Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History. I was a curatorial assistant but Eric patiently put up with my endless hours of questions about octopus.
I may have met some of you at WSM or AMS (formerly AMU) conferences in years past, but unfortunately I don't get to conferences as often I used to.
The most fascinating octopus news from my perspective is that we see a "rare" (in our locale anyway) species of Octopus - Octopus veligero, in our sampling program during El Nino periods. I published a short paper on this phenomenon, but it is more of a musing as I don't have a large enough sample size to draw any real conclusions about their intermittent presence and absence in the Southern CA Bight. I'm guessing/hoping we will be seeing them in next year's trawls.
Anyway, thanks for letting me ramble on and if anyone is interested in octopus data from this area, just let me know.
Megan
My name is Megan Lilly and I work as a marine biologist for the City of San Diego's Ocean Monitoring Program. While my direct duties rarely involve cephs, I do go out to sea a few times a year during our community trawl sampling and I spend the day doing my best to "save the cephs" after identifying and enumerating them of course.
Prior to working at the City of San Diego (many, many years ago....) I was lucky enough to spend over a year working with Dr. Eric Hochberg at the Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History. I was a curatorial assistant but Eric patiently put up with my endless hours of questions about octopus.
I may have met some of you at WSM or AMS (formerly AMU) conferences in years past, but unfortunately I don't get to conferences as often I used to.
The most fascinating octopus news from my perspective is that we see a "rare" (in our locale anyway) species of Octopus - Octopus veligero, in our sampling program during El Nino periods. I published a short paper on this phenomenon, but it is more of a musing as I don't have a large enough sample size to draw any real conclusions about their intermittent presence and absence in the Southern CA Bight. I'm guessing/hoping we will be seeing them in next year's trawls.
Anyway, thanks for letting me ramble on and if anyone is interested in octopus data from this area, just let me know.
Megan