UC Santa Barbara professor guides researchers as they replicate his fieldwork 50 years later.
Half a century had passed, but UC Santa Barbara Professor Armand Kuris(link is external) was sure he’d been here before. In fact, he was completely certain. After all, he had detailed notes of the location, written carefully in India ink when he was still a graduate student.
This time, though, Kuris served as a seasoned mentor for several young researchers who hadn’t even been born when he first visited the site. Truth be told, many of their parents hadn’t yet been born.
This was just one of many shorelines along the coast of the Pacific Northwest where the group was repeating ecological field work Kuris conducted in 1969 and 70. He teamed up with Assistant Professor Chelsea Wood of the University of Washington and her lab — all parasite ecologists eager to know the fate of the organisms Kuris had studied so long ago.
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