The cave beetle says thank you!

Hello there cave beetle backers as well as new visitors,

And welcome back from the thanksgiving holidays. Sonya and I certainly had reason to be extra-grateful this time around after being 115% funded and winning the $500 award of the Groundwater and Caves Challenge Grant competition. 

We would like to thank all our backers for pledging so generously, experiment.com for being a platform that succeeds in what it promises, the busy scientists who checked and endorsed the project (Steven Cooper, Bill Jeffery, Stewart Peck, Ignacio Ribera, Sofia Reboleira, Eric Warrant), and Cindy Wu from experiment.com for nudging us into this just a few weeks back. What an incredible experience.

Besides being able to finally break new ground with P. hirtus after years of fruitless funding attempts, the campaign rekindled old friendships and generated new ones, scientifically stimulating in unexpected ways. I am very glad to state that this process grew into much more than the money. So, thank you all for this as well!

For the remainder of the P. hirtus campaign time, we would like to draw your attention to all the other projects that competed in the Groundwater and Caves Challenge Grant event and are still in need of support. Some more, some less. All of them being important and exciting in my mind. So dear visitors old and new: Don't hold back, be a backer! 

Here in the lab, we will start soliciting quotes for Low Temperature Incubators from different companies this week to be able to move on fast once the funds have been made available.

We will keep you in the loop.