North to South

So a while back I mentioned that I had out some applications for jobs for after my stint in Iceland, and thankfully one came through! I was offered an intern position with a group mainly from University of California-Riverside who works on the Caribbean/South American island of Trinidad. I will be flying down to join the project in mid-September and returning mid-December. The project, as I understand it, is looking at guppies (yes the cute tropical fish that many people keep in home aquaria) and how they evolve to different rates of predation in tropical streams. So I will be catching and tagging many, many guppies. At this point I don't know a whole lot about the living situation, except that it is "rustic" which means living in a house in the jungle, but assuredly I will write more when I find out and when I arrive in Trinidad. I am very, very excited for this opportunity. It will be great to be in the tropics and there are lots of scientists on this project that I will have the opportunity to meet and work with. Here is the project's website http://cnas.ucr.edu/guppy/. And so I go from near the Arctic Circle to near the equator. The only problem is that I won't have much of an autumn. I was worried about coming home at the end of the summer from Iceland being all pasty white since the sun isn't very intense here, and I will come home pasty white, but I think I'll have the last laugh, because next time I come home in December, I'll be nice and bronze while everyone else at home is pasty white.