A Career In The Sea [Tattoo]

Marianne writes, “This tattoo is actually from 4 different sittings at different stages of my scientific career. Specifically, the fish and turtle reflect my first snorkeling experience (the trip was a break from studying for my GRE’s), and then the manatee came along after my SCUBA certification following a trip back to Fl to do so (hence the dive flag flipper), and then I added the seals to reflect my work with marine mammal rehabilitation, and finally the ‘jellies’ (3 local species) which reflect my Master’s degree working with ctenophores. I am currently pursuing my PhD and will add another tattoo, not of my research specifically, but of a dusky dolphin with which I had the opportunity to swim with in New Zealand where I stayed after shipping out to Antarctica for research! Life is good.”

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January 18th, 2009 1:28 PM by Carl Zimmer in Science Tattoo Emporium | 3 comments | RSS feed | Trackback >

3 Responses to “A Career In The Sea [Tattoo]”

1. A Career In The Sea [Tattoo] | MamentoMori Says:
January 18th, 2009 at 9:44 pm

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2. Tattoo News Review Says:
March 21st, 2009 at 4:26 am

[...] even more geeky goodness: Discover’s science tattoo blog has new posts on manatees, wine molecules, phenobarbital, and UV math [...]
3. carl Says:
July 26th, 2009 at 11:23 pm

I wonder where’s nemo? that really is very nice tattoo!

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