Dr Rachel Hale Marine Biologist

@seafloorscience.bsky.social

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Dr of small crawly things that live on the ocean floor. I study what they do, how they do it, and how they respond to disturbance, including climate change. Marine Biologist, Ocean Optimist, Invert Advocate, "Worm Girl" Opinions mine. She/her

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A figure legoman dressed as a shark made into a keyring.
Clear rippley waters over yellow sand in the sunshine.
A small crab in a black gloves hand. The crab has a chiton on its carapace
A sparkly scaled worm with rainbow reflections
Chocolate muffins decorated with cheetah spots
The Charlie IASIP conspiracy meme
Me trying to get Word to stop always correcting OTU to OUT.
The blitzortung map that shows lightning strikes across New Zealand. There's a lot across the west coast of the South Island.
A chunky worm coiled up on a sieve table grid
Wake ripples on a flat calm sea in the fog
A top bunk and a small wall shelf with my toiletry bag with a cat face on the upper shelf.
A small room with bunk beds and white panelled walls.
Me wearing my shiny new yellow high Vis shirt.
Banana cut up and made into the shape of a crab
A screenshot where I have googled "crab with small penis"
A meme of "you Vs the guy she told you not to worry about:" Where the first panel is a beefy looking coconut crab and the second panel is a barnacle
Densely packed barnacles
The pistol shrimp. It has one enlarged claw and a red strip across the body.
The traces of sand dollars burying themselves in wet sand. They look like five pointed stars or snow angels but in sand.
Badger badger badger badger.... Some shiny wet mushrooms in the undergrowth. They have thin stalks (?) and a small brown cap.
Buried round sand dollars, hidden by a layer of sand but showing their outline, make wide trails in the sand in a shallow pool within the ripples that has been caused by a feeding stingray.
A peek between some bushes over sand and grassy sand dunes to a flat sea and a small island and hills in the far background. There are some long white clouds (winky face) in a light blue sky.
A cake on a chopping board in front of a stone fireplace. The cake is chocolate with brown pastey-looking icing swirled into poo shapes with small toasted and caramelised hazelnut pieces sprinkled over it. It literally looks like shit but I can assure we ate it all with lots of cheap french wine
A jellyfish rug
My name written out using natural forms from NASA landsat images. The images show rivera, islands, turbidity plumes or plankton blooms, and fields
A palm covered in shallow subtidal mud In the background is the floor of a small boat and you can just see the water over the side.
Text on a cycle lane/pedestrian lane saying "slow zone" with a picture of a snail.
Me holding a wee octopus we collected. This guy was returned to the sea asap. There's so much cool stuff out there!! Not sure who took this one, sorry picture taker but thank you!
Me sampling a sediment core for infauna - animals that live in the sediment. Pic by Lana Young
Sediment core with me in the background. You can see on the sediment surface there is lots of animals! Pic by Lana Young
Me looking at a sediment core from the deep sea Pic by Lana Young
A snap shot from the CLASSIC web cartoon "The end of the world" Hokay so, this one shows a kangaroo in the snow of nuclear winter saying WTF mate.
Proposed government budget allocation of R&D by socio-economic objective. Where green is a small advanced economy, light green is NZ current, and grey is NZ proposed. Bye bye Society funding!
The list of workshops available at the Symposium. Please follow the website to get info. There's lots of cool ones that are worth investigating!
The Ocean in a High CO2 World Symposium banner. It will be held 13-16 October in Wellington New Zealand.
A whale shark 😔 in an aquarium. A beautiful animal and amazing to see but hopefully it is well cared for.
A large iced coffee (in a reusable receptacle!) and a rectangular green cake on a tray.
A close up of the emojis
A big poster of a red fish with a big red eye with the caption "eyes on the deep" from Schmidt Ocean Institute
A police box with a hat of cheese? And the traditional traffic cone.
A word cloud in response to "When you think about mCDR, what word or phrase best summarizes your feelings or opinions?" With the opposing thoughts Hopeful and Uncertain in the centre.
Glasgow fashion: a statue of a person on a horse with cones on the heads and the horses bum
A massive room with colour themed regions
Picture of woman presenting in front of room
The front page of the Science Under Threat report on cuts in Aotearoa
A figure showing the year to year change in the US federal workforce showing a huge decrease (-~25%) in the year 24-25
A New York Times article "A Starfish Has Captivated Argentina. It Didn’t Ask to Be Political. A livestream of an undersea project has captivated Argentina as President Javier Milei wields a chain saw on the budget for science."
The Ocean Sciences Meeting banner. It's framed with tartan which is cute.
A nighttime view of Glasgow city centre
"Signature sights" panel from Google maps recommending "Great Britain" as a signature sight of (?) Great Britain I guess.
It's Mancunian. Picture: A robin sits on a mossy stone.
A double sea arch
Book cover of The Lives of Octopuses and Their Relatives: A Natural History of Cephalopods by Danna Staaf
A rubber ducktopus
Octopus arm suckers
An octopus
View of the boulder bank with a small tornado/water spout?
Two seastars but one is a square due to a defect
A hand made rug with an Opah design