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CONTENTS J U LY/A U G U S T 2 0 1 5

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ON THE COVER >> OUR COVER MODEL, EMILY WALDMAN, IS A GAINESVILLE RESIDENT AND BIOLOGICAL SCIENTIST. FOR THIS ISSUE WE INVITE READERS TO EXPLORE BOTH THE SCI-ENCE AND TECHNOLOGY EVER-PRESENT IN OUR HUMAN WORLD. TO INFINITY AND BEYOND!P H OTO G R A P H Y B Y E R I C K A W I N T E R R O W D. I L L U S T R AT I O N B Y N E I L M CK I N N E Y.

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20 THE BUTTERFLY EFFECTExplore the science behind this insects fi rst fl ight and other intriguing facts about the Butterfl y Rainforest at the Florida Museum of Natural History.

68 DOWNTOWN BATTLEFIELDDid you know there was a Battle of Gainesville in 1861? This fi erce two-hour confl ict happened near the heart of downtown. Each year in August, under the guidance of local re-enactor John McLean, Civil War re-enac-tors gather behind the Matheson History Museum to recreate the Battle of Gainesville.

80 WORKING TOGETHERSWAG, a non-profi t, grass-roots organization addresses the needs of the community by connecting individuals and families to services and resources.

88 ROBOTIC SUBMARINEFor nearly two decades, UFs SubjuGator project has participated in underwater vehicle competitions.

92 GAINESVILLE COHOUSINGThe fi rst communal neighborhood in Gainesville is scheduled to break ground in January 2016.

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32CADE MUSEUM UPDATEThe Cade Museum will be one of Gainesvilles signature attractions.

38DRONE-ON!Get the scoop on unmanned aerial vehicles, from their controversial military application to recreational and commercial use.

48A NEW PATH FOR NEUROSCIENCEA UF neurobiologist and his research team set sail to explore the nervous systems of marine creatures.

56FINDING CRUSHScientists and students are working to ensure a healthy future for sea turtles.

62INNOVATION ECOSYSTEMThe Innovation Hub in Gainesville offers exciting advantages for start-up technology companies.

96BEYOND THE CORDAROYByron Youngs business continues to thrive after making a deal on NBCs Shark Tank.

116THE NEW AGE OF MUSICUnderstand the ever-changing ways listeners use to consume music.

120PERIODICALLY CORRECTThis fanciful photo essay, inspired by the Periodic Table of Elements, merges science with art.

128THE FINAL FRONTIERSimulators. Astronauts. Rockets!A visit to the Kennedy Space Center.

136SCIENCE SPOTLIGHTMeet Dr. Daniel Savin and see how UFs Preeminence Initiative invests in people and programs that help UF help the world.

144INTERVIEW:CLAY ANDERSONAfter this UF School of Architecture alumnus received his masters from MIT, he has gone on to become an award-winning designer.

152TECH JAW-LOGYLearn about shark technologies for tracking and possibly repelling these fearsome creatures.

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46 NAKED SALSAby Crystal Henry

66 EMBRACING LIFEby Donna Bonnell

114 DIFFERENT NOTEby Albert Isaac

142 HEALTHY EDGEby Kendra Siler-Marsiglio

118 GATE CRASHINGby Brian Krash Kruger

134 READING CORNERby Terri Schlichenmeyer

160 ADVENTURESIN APPETITEby Ken Peng

99 Charity Winners100 Taste of the Town106 Community Calendar112 Public School

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When I was but a wee lad I wanted to be an astronaut or a scientist when I grew up (among other things). I wanted to invent things. But I hated math and was not very good at it. Therefore the mathemati-cal part of my brain never fully developed, making it dif cult to seriously consider becoming a

scientist. Fortunately, the language-reading-music part of my brain fared much better, allowing me to soar into space in my imagination and invent incredible futuristic worlds and then write about them. These days it often feels like Im living in the future. There are rockets on Mars. Arti cial hearts. And Dick Tracys Two-Way Wrist TVs. OK, the last one is a slight exaggeration, but very slight, especially since Apple released a Watch that does just about everything but take photos. Growing up I read with fascination that in the future wed have ying cars and televi-sion-telephones. I think its funny that those futuristic telephones were still tethered to the wall. But the prognosticators did not imagine all the things a smart phone can do. Not only can I see the person Im talking to, but its a ashlight, a level, a GPS, a compass, and it plays music. It can make movies, compose music, and answer questions that I ask. It does just about everything but the dishes and its wireless. Still waiting on the ying cars. Were living in a remarkable era with an exponentially expanding explosion of invention and innovation. With that in mind, for this edition of Our Town we offer you some stories about science, technology and, well, innovation. For example, practically everyone has heard of Gatorade certainly everyone in the Gator Nation. But many probably may not have heard that there is a new museum coming to Gainesville. Learn about the Cade Museum for Creativity and Invention, named for Dr. James Robert Cade, inventor of Gatorade. So sit back and enjoy stories ranging from scientists to sea turtle tracking; from NASA to the deep blue sea; from sharks to Shark Tank. Happy reading!


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A n invention coming out of the University of Floridas Innovation Square hopes to sterilize, sanitize and disinfect household items in a way that hasnt been done before. AzPure is a biomedical technology company that is developing a surface plasma device that can eliminate contaminants that make people sick.

The name AzPure was derived from the idea that they can purify everything from A to Z, said AzPure CEO Gary Bruce. Subrata Roy, AzPure inventor and associate professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering, is a leading expert on surface plasma and has pat-ented more than 25 plasma-related inventions. Roy said that this invention was partly created through the question of what it means to clean. People have been using plasma to clean water since 1903, but AzPure cleans surfaces and air using plasma. The product will work in a vac-uum cleaner. Unlike regular vacuum cleaners that pick up dirt and bacte-ria and spread them throughout the air in smaller particles as it moves around, AzPure would be destroying the bacteria.

AzPure would help to begin solving the problem of allergies, which, according to the American College of Allergy, Asthma and Immunology, is the fth leading chronic disease in the world. AzPure recently placed in the Sweet 16 of the sixth annual Cade Museum Prize, competing with more than 85 teams. Bruce said that the Cade competitions recognition was very good for AzPure. It said, This is technology worth noticing, Bruce said. Roy compared the feeling of being selected for the Sweet 16 in the Cade competition to being peer-reviewed. Being at the Innovation Square has allowed Bruce and Roy to make connections with other inventors and innovators, and have access to many of the different resources that are available. Roy likened Innovation Square to a greenhouse where many different companies are growing together with the help and resources of the University of Florida. Bruce hopes to have the product ready for consumer purchase within the next year. Weve been doing this for some time and we think nows the time to take that leap, Bruce said.

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CONTRIBUTOR S J U LY/A U G U S T 2 0 1 5

KRISTIN KOZELSKYis a classically trained photographer. Since completing her art degree in 2001, she has built a wide body of work and honed in on an interactive approach to working with her clients. [email protected]

KATHY PIERREis a senior journalism major at UF. She aspires to be a social activism writer. When shes not writing or thinking about things she wants to write, she is trying out differ-ent fl avors of Talenti and binge-watching shows on Netfl [email protected]

BRINN STRANGEis a California native who loves her recent relocation to Gainesville. When not writing, she teaches Barre classes at Barre Forte, trains for triathlons, and takes her two mutts to the dog park. [email protected]

BRIAN KRASH KRUGERis a writer, musician and a graduate of the UF College of Law. He has played in some 17 or so local bands, playing most every Gainesville venue friendly to original music(and some not so friendly)[email protected]

PEGGY MACDONALDis a native Gainesvilleian and the exec-utive director of the Matheson History Museum. She has taught history at Florida Polytechnic, Stetson and UF. She is also the author of Marjorie Harris Carr: Defender of Floridas [email protected]

GABRIELLE CALISEis a sophomore journalismmajor at UF who is interning for the fi rst time at Tower Publications. In her spare time sheenjoys collecting vinyl records, taking photo-graphsand watching movies.gcalise@ufl .edu

RICK SAPPis a freelance writer who lives in Gainesville. His goal is to sail around the world obvi-ously alone and end his days eating truffl es and chocolate, and drinking too much red wine in the south of France. [email protected]

ALEXIA FERNANDEZis a UF journalism junior with big dreams. With a deep love of movies and writing, she hopes to one day write books, scripts and create a successful career for herself in [email protected]

CRYSTAL HENRYis a freelance writer and columnist born and raised in West Texas. She received her B.S. in Journalism in 2006 from the University ofFlorida. She is in love with the Florida [email protected]

MARISA ROSSis a UF journalism and Spanish senior. She is a self-proclaimed foodie, photo junkie and travel enthusiast. When she isnt cooking exotic cuisines or planning her next adventure, you can fi nd her playing volleyball or acoustic guitar.mross92@ufl .edu

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The Butterfly Rainforest at the Florida Museum of Natural History on the campus of the University of Florida was established in 2004 and is one of the most diverse butter y houses in the country. To learn more about the science of the rainforest, Our Town took a behind-the-scenes look at the laboratory. Each week, the museum receives an average of two shipments of butter y pupae from licensed butter y farms. There is usually

one shipment from a local farm with 50-80 pupae and one international shipment with 700-800 pupae. The pupae are unpacked and sorted by species. Then the tail end of the pupae are glued onto a sheet of paper using a hot glue gun and hung upside-down in a clear containment area. The containment area can be seen from the visitors side and the lab side of the museum. There is also a webcam that you can watch to check the progress of emerging butter ies. The Butter y Rainforest is prohibited from allowing its butter ies to reproduce according to USDA regulations. Butter y pupae can carry certain parasites, so it is important to keep all the pupae in a closed area.

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How do you keep butter ies from reproducing? Easy! Butterflies and caterpillars prefer certain plants for laying eggs and munching on, so those plants are not included in the rainforest. Butter ies may pupate for a number of weeks before they emerge. During that time, they are unable to defend themselves. Many have evolved

pupae that are either camou aged or show warning colors. Some pupae even twitch when touched. The camou age pupae tend to resemble plant material, such as a leaf or bark. Pupa with warning colors or bright decoration alert potential predators that it may be poisonous. Just before a butter y is ready to emerge, the pupa becomes translucent revealing the pattern of the adult butter ys wings. When a butter y or moth rst emerges, the wings are soft and velvety. The insect hangs upside down and pumps uid from its lower abdomen into the wings to ll them up to take

shape. Once the wings are full, they will harden and the butter y will be able to y. For a small butter y, this process may take 30 to 45 minutes. For a large butterfly, it may be 60 to 90 minutes before the wings are ready for ight. Butter ies are then placed in a screen box until they are ready to be released into the rainforest.

Releases happen daily at 2:00 p.m., and also at 3:00 p.m. and 4:00 p.m. on the weekends. At any given time, there are about 1,000 butter- ies in the rainforest. There are also 350 species of plants and 10 species of birds, including the Chinese painted quail, which is the smallest quail in the world. Every morning, the day begins with sweeping the paths clean and watering the plants. Everything is watered and weeded by hand, which takes approxi-mately two hours each day. Larger gardening tasks take place on Sunday mornings before the museum

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opens. Every other day, bananas are placed out for the butter ies. Some forest-dwelling butterflies, such as the blue morphos (pictured above), have evolved the ability to eat the sweet juices of fallen fruit and other items in addition to nectar. Because the Butter y Rainforest is exposed to the elements, the weather inside is the same outside. Butter ies are exother-mic, which means that they do not produce their own body heat. In cooler weather they are likely to be found basking in the sun like a reptile. Below 60 F, butter ies are no longer able to y.

Below 40 F, they are unable to move. In our region, tempera-tures can dip below freezing so it is important to make sure to protect the plants and butter ies in the rainforest during the winter. There is polycarbonate on the outside of the enclosure, which helps to insulate it slightly. On very cold nights, the staff will cover the plants with freeze blankets and drape large tarps over the water features, which are heated. Fortunately, this only happens a few times a year and the staff are experts at protecting the Butter y Rainforest from the cold.

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Butter y AnatomyThe wings and body of the butterfl y are covered in scales. If youve ever touched a butterfly or moth, you might have noticed some dust on your fi ngers afterward. These are the animals scales. Each cell only pro-duces one scale, so once its gone, it can never be replaced. It is important to avoid touching butterfl ies so that they are able to fl y properly and stay healthy.

The proboscis [bottom] is the mouth and nose apparatus of a butterfl y. It can reach deep inside fl owers to get to the nectar, which is its food. When the butterfl y is not feeding, the proboscis curls up.

Butterflies have compound eyes. While their vision is not as clear as ours, they can see many more colors, especially in the green-blue range and including UV light.

Along the sides of the body are the spiracles, small holes in the abdomen, which is how a butterfl y breathes.Butterfl ies taste with their feet not with their mouths and their legs are very delicate.

There are some species of moth that have no mouth as adults and are unable to eat or drink. Their lifespan is very short about 5 to 7 days and their goal is to mate and lay eggs during that time. Our very own luna moth belongs to this group. [top]

Not all butterfl ies have ears. For those that do, they are located on the abdo-men near the wing attachments. So does this mean that some butterfl ies make sounds? Yes! Some species do, such as the crackers, which are occa-sionally on display at the rainforest.

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Butter y Flight Butterfl ies sometimes need to warm up before they fl y by shaking their wings. While some butterfl ies seem to have an erratic fl ight pattern, oth-ers can fl y very straight very quickly. The brightly colored, slow-fl ying but-terfl ies such as the birdwing [right] tend to be poisonous to the animals that would normally try to eat them, so they have no need to get any-where too quickly. Other butterfl ies fl y erratically to avoid easy capture or fl y very quickly to get away from potential predators. Some butterfl ies can fl y up to 25 or 30 mph, such as the Charaxes butterfl ies. [below]

Chrysalis vs.Pupa vs. Cocoon?The caterpillar forms pupa when it is undergoing the change from cater-pillar to moth or butterfl y. A chrys-alis and a pupa are the same thing, but the term chrysalis is used only with butterflies; only moths make cocoons. A cocoon is an outer cov-ering made of leaves and caterpillar silk that contains a pupa. [top]

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B u t t e r f l i e svs. Moths

Butterflies and moths make up the taxonomic order Lepidoptera. From there, there are seven superfamilies of butterflies and 120 superfamilies of moths. It is thought that butterfl ies are a spe-cialized version of moths. Both butterfl ies and moths feed primarily on fl owers.

Butterflies are generally active during the day, while moths are active at night. Butterfl ies can rest with their wings open or closed and all four wings are indepen-dent, but moths must rest with their wings closed because of an extra attachment between their wings. Butterfl y antennas are long and thin. Moth antennae are usually short and feathery. Lastly, a major difference is that only moths make cocoons: a structure comprised of leaves and silk that contains the pupa. Individuals of the same spe-cies of moth may pupate for weeks, months, or years. Butterfl y pupae are exposed and all individuals within a species tend to pupate for the same duration of time, usually a number of weeks.

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D r. James Robert Cade and his family founded the Cade Museum in 2004, To inspire creative thinking, future inventors, and early entrepreneurs so that communities ourish. Dr. Cade, the inventor of Gatorade, has since passed, but his wife, daughter and son-in-law remain members of the board to ensure the museum continues to ful ll its mission. The museum is housed in a small building across the street from its permanent home at the corner of South Main and

Depot Avenue in Depot Park, an area chosen to ensure easy access to anyone wanting to visit. The building houses of ces, the Creativity Lab and the Fab Lab. Programs are held in this facility throughout the year to encourage young people to get curious and get creative. October marks the 50th anniversary of the invention of Gatorade, which will be marked by a series of events and a ceremonial groundbreaking for construction of the new facility. Events will take place Thursday, October 1st through the Gator football game on Saturday, October 3rd. The Depot Park area has

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Were asked a lot to define what we are, and thats always a hard thing to do when you dont want to be defined, said Development Director Leslie Ladendorf. Are we a science museum? Yes and no. Are we a childrens museum? Yes and no. Are we an arts museum? Yes and no. Were STEAM: were science, technology, engineering, arts, and math we want to bring all that in. The Museum puts a strong emphasis on The Cade Way, which embraces the con-cept of project-based learning. Students are exposed to this approach throughout all of the educational programing at The Cade. They are encouraged to get creative and ask, What if? and then explore further. There is no right way or wrong way to get the answer, nor is there one single way to learn here; projects are approached from all angles to help students arrive at the core concepts of the lessons on their own. Until the schools are ready to embrace how we do things, were here, said Program Director Patty Lipka, who has over 25 years of teaching experience. Its called divergent learning and a fundamental concept upon which the museum is built. Another core concept is Think. Meet. Be. Through this approach, students are taught to think like an inventor and entrepreneur, to meet an inventor or entrepreneur usu-ally a Cade Prize winner or runner-up and to use the Fab Lab to exercise their creativity and be an inventor. This kind of

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encouragement is rarely seen in a traditional classroom and is something the museum prides itself on. An example of a recent project is The Physics of Football workshop. The workshop brought former Gator and Heisman winner Danny Wuerffel, Dr. Heather Vincent from the UF Orthopaedics and Sports Medicine Institute, and Dr. Scott Banks from the UF College of Engineering together with a group of football players from the Boys and Girls Club. For adults, the museum incorporates a bit of learning into every event it hosts. The Cade held its sold-out annual Inventivity Bash on May 15th. The theme of the night was molecular gas-tronomy, so guests learned about chemical reactions such as emulsi cation from some of the top chefs in Gainesville. Creme brle, anyone? The Cade Prize is another channel of community outreach for the museum. The Cade Prize is essentially a pitch compe-tition for inventors and entrepreneurs. The winner is awarded $15,000 from the community foundation and an additional in-kind donation of legal services to help get their project off the ground. In addition, the winners and runner-ups are invited back to the museum to participate in special entrepreneurship

courses and to meet with the students. The Fab Lab is the newest addition to the museum offering a place for children to bring their ideas to life. Out tted with 3-D printers, a laser cutter, computers and an assortment of tools and workspaces, this gives them the hands-on experience of seeing their idea take shape and become a reality. Currently, the Creativity Lab the primary educational space in the building can only handle a limited number of classes, with a maximum class size of 15 students. The completed museum is expected to have about 2,500 square feet of space for educational programming, which the staff is very excited about. When completed, the museum will be much more than a traditional science museum, with hands-on exhibits, events, art, trails, Gator Tank (a spinoff of Shark Tank), an interactive playground and an amphitheater. Were asking people to be a part of something theyve never been a part of before. How many opportunities do you get to be on the ground oor of something like this? Ladendorf said. We hope to provide for the next generation, for the next few generations of kids that are going to become the entrepreneurs and inventors in this community.

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Saying the skys the limit may sound clich, but both manufacturers and UAV enthusiasts in Gainesville say there is so much more to flying small, unmanned vehicles than is popularly realized.

THE PROFESSIONAL HOBBYIST Gainesville hobbyist and entrepreneur Greg Guzman owns two drones. It isnt only the small ying vehicle itself that gives the drone package its immense potential, he said. It is their ability to carry high-resolution cameras and to both receive and respond to instructions from operators on the ground. Guzman said UAVs can do much more, however, than just carry a camera. They can, for example, be used for crop dusting, otherwise a hazardous job requiring skilled pilots who y near the ground avoiding power lines, trees and windmills and still drop fertilizer on target. The beauty of a helicopter-style UAV in crop dusting, Guzman said, is that it can hover and the whirling wind from its rotors distributes chemical to all parts of a plant, even the underside of leaves. Although Amazon.com suggested that, using GPS technology,

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Guzman said at least seven companies in Alachua County and the University of Florida are involved in the drone business. Everybody and their brother are doing this, now, he said. You can get a $50 drone from Verizon and control it with your smart phone.

GAINESVILLES WELL-KNOWN COMPANIES Gainesville has several well-known UAV manufacturers. Prioria Robotics co-founders Bryan da Frota and Jason Grzywna were UF grads. Their original goal was to revolutionize the robotic toy market by 2003, but ve years later their 2.6-pound Maveric UAV was already well known by the Department of Defense. Built with ultra-strong, lightweight composite carbon ber, the Maveric is portable, rapidly deployable and simple to use. Designed primarily for law enforcement and military use, its xed-wing design folds into a backpack tube. Maveric cruises at 30 mph, sprints to 63 mph and can operate over a wireless range of up to 10 miles at nearly 1,000 feet for up to an hour depending on conditions. When the FAA opened public airspace for UAV operation in 2012, Prioria pursued commercial applications, which meant designing helicopter-style UAVs and support hardware and software. The Hex Mini, for example, has a takeoff weight of 5 pounds and a speed of 22 mph for several miles at over 300 feet. UF graduates in Aerospace Engineering and Geomatics

established Altavian in 2011. CEO John Perry said their goal is to maximize the value of unmanned aircraft for our clients by ensuring that they can safely and ef ciently collect data that is precise, accurate and timely. We believe drones are a critical technology for our future. Altavian also has single-prop and helicopter-style drones. The Nova F6500 is a single-prop drone that provides precision 3D mapping and real-time thermal infrared and HD images. It can launch in practically any environment with minimal logistics due to a waterproof, lightweight and hand-launchable design. The Nova R8400 is Altavians eight-prop helicopter-style drone. The R8400 is stable in vertical take-off, landing and hovering. On challenging inspection and monitoring missions, it can navigate obstacles and gather very high-resolution imagery. For a dozen years UFs Unmanned Aerial Systems Research Group has worked with a variety of partners from farmers to dam builders to develop affordable, user-friendly UAVs for natural resource projects. Unmanned systems offer an exciting platform for observ-ing, monitoring and measuring the landscape, said Program Leader Franklin Percival. They ll the gap between satellites and manned aircraft imagery and ground-based observations. UAVs can ef ciently cover large areas of land, particularly when ground operations are difficult or dangerous, such as in the Everglades. Unmanned aircraft provide a method of obtaining aerial imagery without risk to human life.

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A nd it had been a very positive experience. I was pregnant with their child and they had no idea. Baby Daddy texted me as I sat in the waiting room and asked that I make sure any bad news came to him rst. He had to work that day, and he didnt want Baby Mama getting any rough news while she was alone. I assured him that Id let the nurse know. But I sent a big winky face. They drew my labs, but we wouldnt have results until after 2. It was all I could do from texting Baby Mama to tell her to breathe. But Id promised not to let on one way or another since they didnt want to know any pee stick results. Only of cial labs. I knew why they wanted to wait, but I didnt fully understand it. The reasoning is to not get your hopes up by a home pregnancy test. But in my mind, you either get your hopes up from the get-go or you keep that wall up until after the rst trimester. Or until delivery. Or until the child turns 18. Or until youre dead I guess. Really, a home pregnancy test is just the rst worry in a long line of perpetual parenting worry, a dry run for the rest of your life. So although I didnt understand their reasoning, I completely respected it. The waiting was killing me, even though I had another positive home test that morning. I had my fellow surro sisters guessing beta numbers, which again is just the measurement of the pregnancy hormone in my body. They had guesses of 168 and 211. Anything over 5 is positive, but a good high number would sure be reassuring. By 3:30 I was starting to get really agitated. Those labs said STAT, and I knew Baby Mama was on pins and needles. I started bugging the clinic, and within an hour I got a text from Baby Mama asking for a picture of my latest pregnancy test. I asked

if she was double sure she wanted to see. She assured me with 25 emojis, all caps and exclamation points that she absolutely was. The clinic called with the results, and she knew her little embie had settled in. I asked what my beta was, and she said she didnt even remember. She heard the word positive and pretty much blacked out. I was thrilled for her. I got an email later from the clinic and my beta was 37. I was a little taken aback. I thought for sure itd be higher than that since Id gotten a positive so soon at home. Betas are supposed to double every 48 hours in a healthy pregnancy. So my next beta would reveal just how healthy this pregnancy was growing. Still I celebrated. Anything over 5 is a positive, so I was de nitely pregnant. I sent Baby Mama the picture of my latest test, and she texted back happy tears. The weekend was long, but Mondays beta came back just

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I t is often said that we know more about the surface of Mars than the oceans of Earth, which cover more than 70 percent of the planet. Yet, if we took the time to explore the waters of our own backyard, simple marine animals such as sea slugs, jelly-like creatures and octopus could render the answers to major questions neuroscientists have posed for years. Recent discoveries of the aliens of the sea (a term coined by neurobiologist Leonid Moroz) while exploring the Florida coastline alone have provided insight to key brain functions, develop-ment of the nervous system, and the controversial origins of certain life forms. Thats the essence of what the distinguished

University of Florida professor is investigating with his team of researchers. Their latest success is par-tially due to a unique approach: a oating laboratory. Although usually based at the Whitney Laboratory for Marine Bioscience near St. Augustine, Fla., Morozs team has embarked on local excursions with a transportable lab that allows them to collect and analyze sea creatures without returning to land or harming their live samples. By operating in real time, valuable genetic material of fragile, short-lived specimens that would otherwise be forfeited in transit can be analyzed by on-site equipment, sent to a super computer at UF via satellites to be processed and returned on an Excel spreadsheet to the boat in a matter of hours. Somebody had to be rst [to do this], Moroz explained, and our idea is to have a Star Trek mission

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and be self-suf cient to go where no man has gone before, as Captain Kirk said. Obviously you cannot bring home aliens from a distant planet to Earth and study them If you cannot bring the animals to the lab, you need to bring the lab to the sea. The lab itself is a steel shipping container that can con-veniently relocate to different boating hosts. Other marine stations have oating labs, so the idea isnt completely new, but what sets the onboard UF oating lab apart is its genomic sequencer, which is a cutting-edge tool for evaluating the order of nucleotides in DNA. Graduate student and team member Emily Dabe focuses on evolution of the nervous system by comparing development of

signal molecules within mollusks and humans. She said working with Morozs unconventional lab has both introduced her to an exciting way to complete her academic concentration as well as be a participant in a groundbreaking study within the eld. This is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to work on a research vessel and collect specimens that we could never look at in the lab, she said. We get less samples, but we get better samples. By collecting on the boat, we can isolate RNA, we can isolate DNA and we can even sequence ... and we can do it almost instantaneously. Before venturing on a journey with the boat, a crucial problem the students and faculty often struggled with was the condition

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Now, when the team gets a sample, a famous slogan inspires this motto: Just sequence it, Dabe said, jokingly. Its like Nike, but with DNA. Its not satisfying enough to take photographs and study from

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afar, agreed fellow Ph.D. student Gabrielle Winters, who studies the central nervous system of octopus, squid and cuttle sh for a better global understanding of neuroscience in the context of humans. The oating lab concept was born out of necessity for better ef ciency, she said, but after the positive experience the team has had, she said she knows this is only the beginning for Morozs grand future plan. As UF sets the standard with this innovative sequencing method that has progressed over the past few years, the team hopes to extend its testing grounds beyond the regional level on longer voyages and to more obscure destinations. So far, the lab has completed a few trips, ranging from three to seven days, near the Florida Keys and the Gulf Stream area from Fort Lauderdale to the Bahamas. Perhaps someday the lab will sail off around the world, but for now, the nearby waters are still teeming with elusive creatures

begging to be discovered. Even in what seems to be just a bucket of mud, Winters said there are potentially thousands of organisms to sift through and observe under a microscope. Her peer Rachel Sanford, another graduate student in the Interdisciplinary Program for Biomedical Sciences (IDP) at UF, is also passionate about biodiversity sampling, and she recalled a particularly thrilling moment from a roughly 20-minute dive in Florida. During a plankton tow, which involves trailing a big, long net with ne mesh behind the boat, the team collected thousands of miniscule creatures. Among several species of crustaceans and other recognizable organisms, Moroz later announced that one in particular had never been documented before. Sanford said this type of discovery further proves how rev-olutionary the oating labs techniques can be for their focused eld study and knowledge of marine life.

The simple, glimmering organisms possess the ability to regrow a brain and heal wounds with virtually no damage.

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Biodiversity in general in the ocean is steadily decreasing, she said, and because we know so little about it, the group joins the effort in capturing a snapshot of the biodi-versity of the ocean. A number of oceanic species become extinct daily, and although Morozs team may not be able to reverse the biological clock, Sanford assures their research could cor-rect historically accepted facts and rewrite textbooks. For instance, if someone challenged the argument that sea sponges represent the oldest branch of animal of the family tree, a few years ago, it probably would have been shot down in an instant. But in the past year, Morozs team has backed up highly disputed research that sug-gests ctenophores, more commonly known as comb jellies, are the oldest phylum in the animal kingdom. Sanford, who specializes in analyzing the regeneration habits of the comb jellies, said these distinctive animals are making head-lines for dethroning a long-held scienti c belief, but also for the deeper implications they may have on the future of human medicine. The simple, glimmering organisms pos-sess the ability to regrow a brain and heal wounds with virtually no damage. I can make a cut [to the specimen], and within an hour or so, its completely healed, Sanford explained. You cant see any scar or

anything. Its almost like science ction. Figuring out the mechanisms of how this animal is able to regenerate wont necessarily yield immediate drugs that can eliminate brain trauma, but in areas such as spinal cord injuries, this research is essential and may expedite tangible, bene cial results in the next decade or so, Sanford said. Some questions still remain to be answered: Is there more than one way to build a brain? Are there undiscovered genes in cephalopods that could have a cellular effect on humans? Can a central nervous system evolve from a different lineage? There may not be an ultimatum on the foreseeable bene ts of these neurobiologi-cal questions, Winters said, but one thing is certain: Time has not been wasted and their efforts have not been in vain. The best-case scenario would be we nd something that can be implemented in treat-ment through these exploratory theories, Winters said, but the worst-case scenario of the ndings in Morozs lab wouldnt be a loss, either. Even on the worst-case scenario, she said, were still understanding something we didnt understand before about how brains function. Winters said that when and not if they nish the project, theyll know more. Then we can extrapolate, she continued, but through this research, we will learn something.

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I n Finding Nemo, the 2003 Academy Award winning animated feature from Pixar and Disney, Crush is a 150-year-old sea turtle. Crush has a laid-back go with the ow attitude that he carries around the world. Unless we encounter one gliding over a Caribbean reef, Disneys Crush is as close as most of us will get to a live sea turtle. That may not be a bad thing though, that distance between humans and this fragile set of seven species. Sea turtles are endangered because of man. These keystone species face threats from a staggering array of difficulties as human populations grow, coastal zones are developed and marine habitats are degraded. There is hope however. A group of scientists and

students headquartered in Gainesville are working to ensure a healthy future for sea turtles. The group rst coalesced under the leadership of famed UF professor Archie Carr. Since 1986, his edgling group has been organized as The Archie Carr Center for Sea Turtle Research at the University of Florida (accstr.ufl.edu) and the Sea Turtle Conservancy (www.ConserveTurtles.org formerly the Caribbean Conservation Corp.), which Carr also founded. The men and women of the Carr Center, said Director Karen Bjorndal, believe that only through research, education and conservation, can we hope to obtain the information necessary to ensure the survival of sea turtles and other aquatic species on our crowded planet. Bjorndal hopes their efforts will lead to increased public awareness and determined political action.

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Why are sea turtles important? Sea turtles have lived on Planet Earth for more than 100 million years. Routinely, turtles travel great distances much like Crush in Finding Nemo in the worlds oceans. Scientists believe the survival of sea turtles and other species is intricately linked to the survival of humankind itself. A world in which sea turtles cannot survive could soon become a world in which humans also struggle. Sea turtles are an indispensable part of the oceans network of life. They and manatees, for example, graze on seagrass beds,

which are breeding grounds for many species of sh, shell sh and crustaceans. These beds must be continually thinned to maintain their fecundity. Scientists link the decline in seagrass beds to falling numbers of sea turtles and manatees. Without sea grass beds, the Earth could experience a cascading series of extinctions, and where that would end, no one can predict.

Finding Crush The Carr Center in Carr Hall on the UF campus and the Sea Turtle Conservancy on NW 13th Street are hubs of sea turtle

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With colleagues at Bahamas National Trust and Family Island Research and Education, writes Stephen Connett, we increased the involvement of children and families with sea turtles and marine conservation in The Bahamas.

Our research generated the data on sea turtle distributions, abundance, and survival probabilities in The Bahamas that were critical for the September 2009 government decree that ended legal harvest of sea turtles in The Bahamas, writes Walter Stafford. This harvest had been extensive, and we are now seeing a signifi cant increase in the numbers of sea turtles in Bahamian waters.

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research, education and conservation nationwide. The Center is an interdisciplinary network with faculty drawn from a range of specialties including biology, human and veterinary medicine, biotechnology and environmental engineering. A cooperative partner with the Conservancy, they jointly track individual sea turtles through the worlds oceans. And how they do that is key The short story is that to track a turtle in the ocean one simply glues a transmitter onto its back and follows it by sat-ellite. But theres more to it because turtles like Crush are world travelers and what they do during their thousand-mile migrations, indeed, where they go and what routes they follow has long been a mystery. Satellite telemetry allows sea turtles to be tracked through open ocean after a small, low wattage Platform Terminal Transmitter (PTT) is glued to the turtles backs. The PTT operates for about a year, because by that time the glue wears off. This transmitter sends an informational signal to a polar-or-biting satellite, primarily used to track weather, when the turtle surfaces for air. The satellite re-transmits the data to a receiving station on Earth, which researchers can access through their computer. The data received from the turtles transmitter comes in the form of digital codes, which must then be deciphered. The codes allow researchers to determine the latitude and longitude of the turtle, the number of dives taken during the last 24 hours, the

duration of the most recent dive and even the water temperature. Using computer mapping programs, or by hand-plotting the location, students can also determine the route turtles have traveled and how fas

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