The CofC Office of Media Relations
shot this video in
2010, shortly after Amy Wethington, John Wise and I discovered a new
species of
freshwater snail "in our own backyard," Physa carolinae.
I stopped by to see our good friend Bobby Martin of Martin Microscope
at the Society For Freshwater Science meeting in Milwaukee in May of
2015. And we got to talking, and one thing led to another.
And two months later, out popped a 5:57 video of an individual Physa acuta
crawling around in circles.
Have you ever seen the Jimmy Kimmel gag, "Celebrities Read Mean
Tweets?" That bit of late-night foolishness seems to have
inspired the students who
produced this
2015 CisternYard Video, featuring four
perfectly ordinary college
professors and yours truly:
...Be sure to watch for the "come-back" after the credits!
Hee Haw!
The Charleston Post & Courier published a sweet
"where-are-they-now" article about me in late February of 2018.
The online version of that article featured this little snippet
of video: