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I saw a talk recently by an oyster farmer in the Pacific Northwest and he said shellfish in the region are being dramatically affected by pH changes (ocean acidification). Is this also occurring or an issue where you are?

I did Peace Corps in Jamaica (not the tourist part but the really rural part) and know exactly what you are going through. All I can say is hang in there and it gets better after the first year. I taught school and felt like I was really bad at it which made me feel like I was doing the whole thing for no reason. I started doing other projects that I was better at like environmental stuff and I actually started feeling better about everything. I still feel like I got more out of the experience from personal growth than I gave back to the community but I would do it again in a heartbeat. I look back on that experience as one of the best of my life though some of things that happened there I would never want to go through again. My question though is how does the host family thing work? Do all volunteers live with a host family for the whole deployment? In Jamaica we lived on our own and only lived with a family during the training period of a few months.

No question, just thanks you so much for being such a great inspiration to me and my friends. Many of us, myself included, became biologists/scientists because of your great documentaries that we watched in school as part of science class.