>Insects are very cool, but I have another suggestion for you, Ellen.
>There are organisms that are much easier to collect than most marine
>mollusks, and much, much easier to collect than most cephalopods (don't
>I know it...).  Heck, they're even easier to collect than many insects.
>  Furthermore, they're very diverse and common, yet woefully
>understudied.  And the best part is, you could continue studying
>mollusks.
>How about land snails?


Actually, having spent many hours in NZ, Canada, USA & Fiji looking
for them, landsnails are difficult to find (apart from a few
locally-common species) and because they are so conservative in
shell-form they are often extremely difficult to identify even to
family level.

That's not to say that they are unrewarding!
--
Andrew Grebneff
Dunedin
New Zealand
Fossil preparator
Seashell, Macintosh, VW/Toyota van nut
‚ Opinions stated are mine, not of the University of Otago
"There is water at the bottom of the ocean"  - Talking Heads

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