This week has been a good one for my colleagues in the news. First, there was a nice piece on Mandy Joye on cnn.com which detailed some of the work she is doing right now to understand the severity of the Gulf oil spill. Although I’m not sure why a front-page story on CNN needs to describe the subject as “the librarian version of Angelina Jolie”, Mandy is doing fantastic work and it’s great to have her as a colleague here at UGA and as part of the Georgia Coastal Ecosystems LTER down at Sapelo Island.

Then yesterday I learned about fellow Duke grad student (and fellow UC Davis postdoc, and fellow fish biologist, invasive species biologist, salt marsh biologist - what doesn’t he do?) Mike Blum appearing on the Colbert Report. Mike’s interview, about the toxic effects of the oil spill and dispersants used for months afterwards, starts at about 11:08 but it is worth tuning in at about 10:00 for the jokes about “shrimp taint”.