Well done on getting to this point Luke! It is fantastic to hear how you have not only grown in temperament and professionally but also technical skill! Good luck for your presentation and I look forward to hearing more when you return!

Holly, Thank you for sharing your journey! Watching your growth as a leader in the lab has brought so much nachas (pride and joy). I am excited to follow your journey as you continue to grow, develop and build the beautiful world you envision. 

Luke, connecting data to people and people to data is such an important skill. So often does it get forgotten and those who live, those who collected the data, those who document it and then the person who comes and interprets it becomes a broken and forgotten chain. I am impressed by the way you are conducing this work, keeping both community and administration in mind. While times move, and traditions and places are lost, the remembrance and honouring of what is and was is vital- I hope when the day comes to eat your fortune cookie, you will remember the day you became a keeper of the memory of these soon to be lost places. 

Daniyal, what a week of self discovery! Not only have you delved deeply and broadly into a new academic field, you have also shown great introspection into your own humility, courage and collaboration. I hope these attributes guide you well towards refining and focussing the lens of your research. Good luck on this next phase of your work! I am excited to see where it takes you!

Sali, what a delightful blog with deep insights into both how and where we need to show up. That it is not only the specialised skills that we have but also our time and presence that can make important change is an important and humbling observation. It brings me great joy to read you, Arav and Daniyal had a great meet-up! Good luck with the research this week! I look forward to hearing more!

Kaito, it seems you really have become part of the team as you note other volunteers "come and go"! Congratulations on the rescue diver qualification, it is a fantastic accomplishment! I am excited to hear more about the turtle ID software, it will be interesting to see whether the post-ocular scutes are able to provide an enhanced and longer term way of tracking and ID'ing the turtles. The trouble of beach drift (or preventing beach drift) in this case is a long standing issue and not unique to island contexts. The UK faces similar issues along some of its coast line leading to cliff face collapse. This compounded with perhaps cuter but still dangerous impacts on the ecosystem (yay centipedes) really demonstrate the small actions with large consequences human action can make.  Wishing you luck for the coming week! Thank you for the photos of the team, cat and Whale Shark!

Arav, thank you for sharing the humanity and lived experiences that create the teams and systems we live in. I hope you manage to continue your summer of discovery and exploring if and where in the health care world you belong. If this is something you want to explore further when you get back to Oxford I can connect you with US and UK based practitioners who would be willing to discuss with you. In the meantime, I hope you continue to explore, discover, learn and contribute throughout the summer. If the inspiration strikes, I would still enjoy reading the sporadic update!

Sali, I am excited to read about your easy travel to France! It is so often that we take for granted our proximity to places and forget about our neighbours. I am excited to see how your experiences combine with this new position, perspective and place! I look forward to reading more in the coming weeks.