Spent Monday and Tuesday visiting Santa Cruz, where I have recently accepted a post-doctoral position with Steve Munch, Marc Mangel, and Alec MacCall. I will be based primarily at the National Marine Fisheries Service building, here: ` 
Five fantastic years of graduate school are coming to an end: I will start officially later this fall, where I will
join an exciting team of ecologists and applied mathematicians who work collaboratively on cutting-edge problems in ecological and evolutionary modeling through the Center for Stock Assessment Research. I will work with us to develop non-parametric approaches to ecosystem-based management based on semi-parametric Bayesian methods for nonlinear time-series modeling …
or so the job description goes. I am looking forward to it.