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Catherine
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Marine scientist, GIS teacher. Likes #rstats, knitting, cooking + baking!
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Pyllidia varicosa, also known as the scrambled egg nudibranch 🤣
📸 Cristorei, Timor-Leste

#MolluscMonday #MarineBiodiversity #MarineLife #CoralTriangle #TimorLeste #Nudibranchs #Underwater #scuba
A marine sea slug, or nudibrancha, a shell-less gastropod, crawling on the reef bottom in Timor-Leste. The nudibranch is black with whit patches with white and yellow bumps. There are two small rhinophores or antennae like structures at the front. Landscape shot of the nudibranch with a gloved finger next to it for scale. It's a bit smaller than an index finger.
August 18, 2025 at 3:15 AM
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Dive buddy Selina for scale.
A diver in a purple buoyancy compensation device infront of a wall of barracuda in the blue.
August 14, 2025 at 3:30 AM
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The resident school of barracuda in Iliana, westside of Ataúro Island in Timor-Leste. My guess is great barracuda, if any fish people can confirm?

#Barracuda #CoralReefs #MarineLife #ReefFish #CoralTriangle #MarineBiodiversity #scuba #Underwater
A large school of >200 barracuda swimming in a large circle. They are large, almost a meter in length, with pointy nose, crescent moon-shaped tail, and black bars lining the side of the siverly body.
August 14, 2025 at 3:30 AM
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Recent trip to #TimorLeste saw a large school of bumphead parrotfish!

They were doing a holding pattern swimming circles on the reef - too bad the viz wasn't great. Always amazing to see these gentle giants underwater.

#CoralTriangle #addOcean #ScubaDiving
August 9, 2025 at 4:18 AM
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Belated Pi Day apple pie. #PiDay

The recipe called for pre-cooking the apples which actually turned out really well!

Last year, saw Nigella on pi Day, waited over an hour to get a book signed, and talked to her about pi the number. ♥️
An apple pie with a lattice crust sitting on a white kitchen counter top.
March 16, 2025 at 10:48 PM
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#CycloneAlfred is late and I foolishly thought I could buy some extra milk and eggs last minute. Totally sold out of course. Instead, impulse bought 2 pints of Ben& Jerry's bc they were on sale.

Meanwhile my partner made 20+ gorditas.

So that's what we'll be eating 👍

Stay safe #Brisbane
2 pints of Ben & Jerry's ice cream, chocolate chip cookie dough and Phish food, sitting on a shelf in a freezer with plastics bags holding other food underneath. Gorditas, flattened masa corn flour patties stuffed with ricotta cheese fried until golden brown, piled high on 2 plates sitting on a kitchen counter.
March 7, 2025 at 3:29 PM
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Some peace and calm before flying into a literal storm.

A beautiful day somewhere between Dili and Hera in Timor-Leste!

Stay safe BrisVegas.

#TimorLeste #Brisbane
March 5, 2025 at 2:53 PM
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It's also the first time I've been driving in Timor-Leste with a Timorese dive team. Te Aquila the dive master and 2 interns from the National University, Jose and Selsio.

Thanks Dreamers Dive Academy ♥️

#SCUBADiving #Diving #CapacityBuilding #HauNiaTimor #TimorLeste
The dive team on the beach at Dili Rock ready to dive. Left to right is Jose, Catherine, Te Aquila, and Selsio. We are all dressed to dive with science gear like clipboards, cameras, and a dive buoy. The beach and ocean are in the background. Selsio and Catherine SCUBA diving the transect at Dili Rock. Selsio is pointing to the transect and Catherine is writing on a clipboard. The water is a bit murky, visibility <5 m. Catherine SCUBA diving at Dili Rock taking pictures of the transect tape.
February 22, 2025 at 5:49 AM
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It's been awhile Blue sky!

My first dive in Timor-Leste this year at Dili Rock. Beautiful conditions from the beach but so so visibility because it's rainy season. First started doing reefs surveys here in 2015.

#MarineScience #HauNiaTimor #Diving #CoralReefs #CoralTriangle
February 22, 2025 at 5:18 AM
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Learned you can override #ggplot point settings using guides() to make the symbology clearer in the legend! Good for publication #reproducibility

ggplot(data=diamonds, aes(x=carat, y=price, color=cut)) +
geom_point(alpha=.25,size=1) +
guides(color=guide_legend(override.aes=list(size=3, alpha=1)))
A scatter plot of diamond carat size and price with points colored by cut (fair to ideal). There is fairly linear positive relationship between diamond size and price with higher quality cut demanding higher prices.
April 27, 2024 at 3:38 AM