[Coral-List] looking for field guides / collaborators for Micronesia/Marshall Islands/Palau/Guam

[mikhail matz]

Dear colleagues,

I am planning a genetic connectivity survey of indicator coral  
species in the reefs of Micronesia, Marshall Islands, Palau and N.  
Mariana Islands. I have all the tools lined up for multilocus  
genotyping and stress-related gene expression profiling; the only  
thing sorely missing to make a convincing proposal (to HURL/NOAA,  
http://www.soest.hawaii.edu/HURL/rfp2008_coral.html) is the field  
work plan. I cannot develop it on my own since I never been to most  
of these places.  I am looking for collaborators who are familiar  
with the local logistics,  to help develop (and hopefully implement!)  
the fieldwork  component.

Looking forward to the new cool collaborations,

cheers

Misha


Mikhail V. Matz
University of Texas at Austin
Integrative Biology Section
1 University station C0930
Austin, TX 78712
phone 512-992-8086 cell, 512-475-6424 lab
fax 512-471-3878
web http://www.bio.utexas.edu/research/matz_lab