Wood: Is It What's For Dinner?

Congratulations!!

Neat project! Glad it got funded.

Congratulations Craig!

Just wanted to say that this seems like a really cool subject for research (and I'd love to win a plush isopod).

great project, do keep me informed on the results. torstenth@bigoceansupport.com

Your project sounds fascinating! Looking forward to hearing the results.

I'm strangely excited for my sticker?? Anyway, I'm glad to contribute!

Go Craig go!

Inset clever wood-related pun here. Good luck!

Dude, good luck with the science swill! Seriously, I am not a fan of crowd funding but you, I support.

Go Craig! Wooden you know it - I always thought you were barking up the wrong tree. Don't leave anything behind, and root out all the answers. Pete

GO CRAIG GO! And refraining from making jokes about your rotten sea wood.

I know it's not much, but I wanted to try and help you get the funding you need. - Mark Ulmer

Good luck, Craig!

This looks like a really interesting project - I hope you keep releasing videos as it progresses (assuming you get funded, which I'm... assuming you are :P)

What the world needs is more isopod plushies! Perhaps even giant squid coat racks...

I love the project plus I need to win that isopod! Good luck.

Oh my dear lord, I always thought this project was cool but hadn't got around to funding it yet because there were too many cat videos to watch on the internet BUT NOW THERE IS A GIANT PLUSHY ISOPOD INVOLVED. This just escalated.

Best of luck!

Hey DrCraigMc. Thanks for chatting with me on Twitter! I learned a lot from your site. I would really like to read your paper on the politics and coastlines...I am dying to see if any of what you learned can be applied to the voting maps of Florida and our own paleontological geographical history. Good luck with the study! If I don't win the giant isopod, please tell me where to buy one! :) divergurl1999@me.com Thanks, Trish Hunt

More than halfway there, excellent!

As well as being an amazing science project, its really interesting to me as a sci-artist. I hope you reach your goal, I can't wait to see the results. KR @DrImmySmith

Can't wait to read the paper!

Best plushy, ever.

Go Craig! Wooden it be great if your project was a success? It wood!

Go wood fall team! I'd a thought ocean inverts wood be syc-a-more terrestrial carbon after all these years.

This will be interesting to see- let me know how the study goes!

Love the video and the project sounds amazing. Can't wait to see the results!

I want my damn sticker! Seriously, thanks for your entertaining and informative work. Keep it up. -Dudding

Hope you make that goal!

Good luck!

Fascinating project. I hope, first, you get it funded; and, second, that you will learn much; and, third, that you will help *us* learn much.

Good luck! We cannot wait to hear more about this very cool project.

Looking forward to your study of log transformation... oh wait... this is just about transforming logs?!?

Hope going deep isn't too boring for your wood.

Happy to help support your wood!

I am studying marine plastic pollution hope to connect soon to learn more about your work. I'm SciFund# too! experiment.com/toxicplastic I am wondering about your knowledge of historic marine woody debris. Seems like current situation is rafts of plastic and marine debris for organisms evolved to use natural debris, like wood. Did big at-sea wood rafts use to exist? Woody debris as nature's floating aggregation device? Good luck!

Keep up the great work on deep sea science! -Erin McLean

From one marine biologist to another, good luck funding your project! It looks awesome! -Ryan Ellingson

I told myself I wood contribute, didn't quite nail it, but hacked a bit off the end.

Yaaay salty wood! Let's see what critters like to snack on it! :) I found out about your research via twitter, and was fascinated by it. I can't afford to contribute a lot to the project, but I wanted to show my support all the same. Thank you for being a researcher that has embranced social media to share your work with the world in a way that will help bring more people to science in a positive way :) Scientists like you make my job as a science communicator and advocate for biodiversity research much more interesting and fun :) Sincerely, ~Stacey Lee Kerr

sick sick video!

From one person working on wood falls to another. Plus your video is frickin awesome.

What Up Craig! Love this idea! I will always support you because I know you love what you do. Good Luck! Andrew

This sounds like a really exciting project, looking forward to the updates!

Good luck! Aquatic dead wood is AWESOME, whether it's in Fresh or Saltwater. :)

Cover that log in adorable baby invertebrates and send me the footage ASAP

Thought I wood help you out. - Roy

Good luck meeting the goal!

WOOOOO!!!!!

For a sulfur sample!

Wish I could help more! Because awesome.

Cause your my favorite. <3 A-pain

Go, Admiral!

Good luck!