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July 2008

- Lihini ventures to Sri Lanka
- Welcome Ulisses and Carolina for the Summer
- Farewell to Laurie (USC), Dondra (UCSC), and Nick (UW)

June 2008

- Dondra and Nick Graduate
- Congratulations for Dondra's Award

May 2008

- The lab ventures forth on the R/V Sproul and returns to solid land

April 2008

- Happy Spring!
- Farewell to Roman

March 2008

- Congrats to Dondra, Nick and Laurie on Graduate school

February 2008

- It's rainy!
- The lab is graced with many new instruments

January 2008

- Happy New Year!
- Roman Defends!

December 2007

- Travis leaves for Woods Hole
- Travis defends!
- Happy Holidays!

November 2007

- Mariana sails on the Fall CalCOFI cruise
- The lab runs in the Chancellor's 5K Challenge... sort of

October 2007

- It's suddenly October
- The website is finally updated
- Lihini goes to the east coast again
- CAL football is ranked 3rd in the nation!

September 2007

- Welcome Ian and Nellie to SIO and to the lab - Happy Labor Day!
- Lihini departs for and returns from China
- Can you believe it's Fall already?

August 2007

- It's a very quiet month in the lab
- Welcome Andrian and Mariana to the lab

July 2007

- Lihini and Roberta take the new pump out on the R/V Sproul
- It is now sunny and warm
- Lihini is away at a conference

June 2007

- Nick and Dondra are away for the summer doing cool things
- We welcome three high school students to the lab for the summer
- It's cloudy

May 2007

- Travis returns from Mexico
- On May 18th and 19th, Nick Ward and Dondra Biller will present their research at the annual UCSD Undergraduate Research Conference. Nick will present his research on phytoplankton and inorganic N acquisition. Dondra will present her research from the Charles lab on coral oxygen isotope records of precipitation in the Indian Ocean.

April 2007

- Travis flies to Seattle and sails to Mexico
- We welcome Susan to the lab!
- Laurie sails off and returns from the CCE-LTER Process Cruise
- Sri Lanka enters the final of the 2007 World Cup Cricket Tournament
- Roberta returns from Germany and working with Kai Hinrichs

November 2006

- Neil and Laurie make it back to land - Roberta leaves for Germany - Happy Thanksgiving!

October 2006

- Roman and Roberta return to San Diego
- Laurie survives being a blood stem cell donor
- Neil and Laurie sail off on the R/V Revelle for 2.5 weeks.

September 2006

- The New website gets launched. Laurie obtains large hammer with which to hammer out bugs in code.
- Nick discovers the wonders of the Taq Master enhancer.
- Summer is over. How sad ;_;
- Roberta is off in the Bay Area.
- Roman goes to the east coast.
- Travis gives in and defrosts the freezer.

August 2006

- Laurie returns from her travels to wrassle with the TOC machine and rebuild this site.
- Nick joins the lab with his really awesome bike shorts.
- The lab wishes Laura and April luck for the coming school year.

July 2006

- Lihini and Roberta set off on the R/V Atlantis for 3 weeks, creating the prospective for Alvin dives and bachelor's month in the lab.
- Travis and Roman welcome Hoover High School students April Tang and Laura Lopez from Aquatic Adventures' Bahia program; bachelor's month is indefinitely postponed in the name of outreach and education.
- Lihini and Chris celebrate their anniversary!

June 2006

- Roman and Travis explore "urban oceanography" on the new R/V Hugh R. Sharp in the DE River (pre-flooding)
- Roberta officially joins the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory graduate student posse
- Lihini teaches in Catalina: Geobiology 2006