Nice Recognition

One of the top, if not the 'top' Diatom images in our collection of over 55 colorizations, has been recognized as a Feature in the "Underwater Portraiture" Group  in RedBubble. 

FYI - Dr. Paul E. Hargraves

 About Dr. Paul E. Hargraves:

After a multi-decadal career at the Graduate School of Oceanography of the University of Rhode Island, Dr. Paul Hargraves is now an Affiliated Research Professor in Harbor Branch's Center for Marine Ecosystem Health.  His research interests focus on the biodiversity, systematics, ultrastructure, and life cycles of microscopic life in aquatic environments, and his >100 publications include research on fresh water, coastal, and oceanic environments from the North Atlantic to the Antarctic, from the Peruvian Amazon to Australia's Great Barrier Reef, from the Indian River Lagoon to 50-million year-old fossils.

During his career, Dr. Hargraves has received research funding totaling several million dollars from the National Science Foundation, the Environmental Protection Agency, National Oceanic & Atmospheric Agency, the National Sea Grant program, and several private organizations.  He has been a visiting professor at the National University of Costa Rica and at the University of Salzburg, Austria, served as Associate Dean of the Graduate School of Oceanography, and held adjunct positions at several other universities.  His former students, including 12 Ph.D. and 20 M.S. recipients, have gone on to successful careers in academia, industry, and government, and he has served on the thesis committees of over 50 additional graduate students.  He attributes his early and lifelong interest in the marine environment to many summers spent digging in the mud on Cape Cod.  His interest in skin biodiversity is recent, and only skin deep.

RedBubble new product information.

I was happy to learn today that RedBubble is now offering postcards.  They can be found with the note cards, as part of the selection.  The addition of postcards is really great addition. They list for $1.99 each and a 20% discount if you purchase four [4] or more postcards.  You can chose a variety of images from the site, but they have to be all of the same size, that's important to remember.

In The News, Again.

Dr. Paul Hargraves will be giving a talk about the hundreds of millions of bacteria, mites, insects, fungi, yeasts and algae that live on the skin of each and every one of us. Dr. Hargraves, an affiliated research professor at Harbor Branch Oceanographic Institute, will present “The Life That Lives on Us” at 4 and 7 p.m. Wednesday, March 10, at Harbor Branch, 5600 N. U.S. 1 in Fort Pierce. Admission is free.

An Exciting Announcement!

Well, I have been waiting in anticipation, waiting for the day to finally come and...tadaaah - I can now proudly say that an article written by Mr. Erick Gill about my digital diatom colorizations and Dr. Paul Hargraves studies, has been published in Vero Beach Magazine - March issue! I am very proud and excited, since this is the first article that has been published about my digital colorizations. This is a copy of the cover page for the March, 2010 issue. I will post excerpts from the article in the coming days.