Eleanor with some of her less shrimpy shrimp. (Most of the species she studies are tiny).
Eleanor’11 who might remember from her 2009 posts from the Farallones Islands where she collected data for her senior thesis, is currently working on her PhD at Duke University. She writes, “I’m focusing in on a PhD topic regarding convergent evolution in signaling and phenotypes in cleaner shrimp. I’m interested in why cleaner shrimp have such crazy colorful phenotypes, and whether it acts as a signal to client fish or to each other, or perhaps as camouflage against certain backgrounds, or maybe both!”