Otter trawl on the Napa River
A day out on the Napa river as part of the Otter trawl survey team.
Posts about fieldwork
A day out on the Napa river as part of the Otter trawl survey team.
Field work is supposed to be where ecologists get to play Indiana Jones. The reality with swing-dancing joke-cracking fish-loving UC Davis research scientist Jim Hobbs is somewhat different: wet, muddy, smelly, and mostly involving either waiting for leopard sharks or harvesting leopard shark vomit. by Alessandra Bergamin on December 10, 2014