Hamers: Marine Invertebrate Propulsion

Hamers: Marine Invertebrate Propulsion

New member Laurel Hamers (@Arboreal_Laurel) writes for the University of Oregon about the jet propulsion used by a gelatinous sea creature, Nanomia bijuga. Hamers describes how this tiny, colonial creature with no central nervous system nevertheless uses many...

Sharp: Swimming and Surviving

Elizabeth Sharpe, Communication Director, Department of Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences at the University of Washington spent a good part of 2010 and 2011 learning about breast cancer from the patient perspective. Now on the other side of surgery,...