Posts by Ann Tarrant

We recently published a pretty cool little paper (if I do say so myself), but it was a really long time in coming. Scientists have a responsibility to share our data and communicate our findings . But pretty much every scientist I know has data coming out of his or her ears. The time and mental power…

A childhood friend told me that when she was a little girl, she heard her mother say “don’t drop crumbs, we’ll get ants!” After hearing that, she thought that crumbs turned into ants. My friend and I laughed about this, but later we learned in our grade-school science class that people have shared similar beliefs…

A beautiful aspect of my job is the opportunity to help others. I have opportunities to mentor, train and advise students, to assist colleagues and co-workers, to collaborate on a variety of projects, and to reach out beyond the scientific community. This adds diversity to my day and enriches my scientific experience. Some of these…

I’ve been slowly going through some old things, tidying up, getting rid of clutter and “baggage”. Today I flipped through a lab notebook from my high school physics class. I kept it all these years (26 now!) because the teacher had written a really complimentary and inspiring note in the back. I was thinking maybe…

This post was written by lab alum Amalia Aruda Almada, Ph.D. Hi everyone! It’s a pleasure to be a guest on Ann’s fabulous blog. Ann and I go way back (see photo evidence above…I’m on the right, Ann’s on the left) – Ann taught me how to hold my first pipette when I was a…

This post was co-written by A. Tarrant and H. Rivera. (* Giving an 8-minute presentation exhausted the limits of Ann’s Spanish proficiency. Someday we might write some posts in Spanish, but not quite yet). On September 16, 2017, WHOI hosted a special symposium titled “Oceanos: WHOI en Español e Português” in which twelve scientists gave…