I've been thanking folks for contributing to my project based on the chronological order their support came in, and I'm now at the end of the line! The following two generous individuals will be the last two I thank here on my blog, though of course I greatly appreciate everyone else's support. Below these "thank yous" is a brief status update on my project.
Greg M: Greg is an English teacher at the Urban School and was very welcoming to me from the first day I worked there. Greg's sense of humor is known far and wide and he is always quick to point out that I study "moth balls" or shoot me questions about "Mothra." Greg has been a curious and enthusiastic supporter of my project and I hope he keeps trying to think new plays on words relevant to my research!
Jane N: Jane, like me, started working at the Urban School in 2011. Jane is a member of the staff that, as a whole, do such an outstanding job of making sure things run smoothly around here, and Jane has personally helped me with a number of things like making sure I am using pre-tax dollars when I ride the subway - something that's pretty important when a BART ride costs an arm and a leg. I very much appreciate all Jane does for Urban and for her support of my project.
Project update: Right now, my collaborators (Dan and Will from the University of Hawaii) and I are in the process of submitting our application for one more trek to Kaho'olawe, scheduled for February (give or take a month). This trip would be to collect larvae and find any wet-season species, and would finish off the field work for this project.
For the time being, I am staying very busy working on other insect-related research (describing new species of Hawaiian Carposina moths; working on a paper that discusses practical measures related to insect conservation; finishing a large project to document species of South American Adelidae moths).
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