Demonstrating (teaching assistance) for Marine Invertebrate Taxonomy is a great experience to have as a PhD student. It gives you contact with lots of eager undergrads (this year anyway) that want to get involved in field and lab work. It also gives you the opportunity to learn more about organisms that are found around the southern British shores, such as the Sea Mouse (Aphrodita aculeata, [http://www.marlin.ac.uk/speciesinformation.php?speciesID=2564]). Can you believe this is a worm?!? Crazy, eh? Although I have seen dead specimens numerous times while demonstrating on this course, I still have yet to see one alive and moving around. How cool would that be???
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