Below you will find selected photos from meetings and field work, in no obvious order...
Pregnant broad-nosed pipefish male in eelgrass (photo: Lotta Kvarnemo).
Varpu Pärssinen, Lotta Kvarnemo and Beatriz Taboada after a meeting in Erice, Sicily, May 2024, on sexual selection and global change.
Pipefish & goby team 2022 (from left: Lotta Kvarnemo, Anna Waffender, Ola Svensson, Lisa Carlsson, Leon Green, Johanna Yliportimo, Ayushi Mahajan).
Sand goby male on nest (photo: Lotta Kvarnemo).
Field work at Kristineberg 2021 (Leon Green, Ola Svensson & Lotta Kvarnemo.
Sand goby team 2014 (from left: Topi Lehtonen, Sandra Johansson, Malin Nygård, Jessica Åsbacka, Lotta Kvarnemo, Sofie Schöld, Ola Svensson, Malin Celander & Kai Lindström)
Sand goby and Idotea genome meeting 2012 (from left: Kai Lindström, Hannah Wood, Lotta Kvarnemo, Filip Volckaert, Anders Blomberg, John Craft, Veijo Jormalainen, Sanna Eriksson, Ola Svensson & Erica Leder)
Leigh Simmons and Lotta Kvarnemo, Turku, Finland. August 2012.
Hans Lindqwist and Leon Green catching round gobies at Klippan, Gothenburg, May 2015.
Lotta working in the field at Kindvig, Denmark. May 2015.
Filip Volckaert & Eva-Lotta Blom in Bökevik, Kristineberg
Essential field equipment
Erica Leder fishing for sand gobies in winter, Finland. December 2012.
Winter fishing at Rairanta, Finland. December 2012.
Ola Svensson & Kai Lindström
Leon Green catching round gobies at Kindvig, Denmark. May 2015.
Ola Svensson at Tjärnö, Sweden.
Round goby dinner
Showing off seahorse earrings at SyngBio meeting in Faro, 2013.
Pipefish team 2005
(from left: Ingrid Ahnesjö, Lotta Kvarnemo, Kenyon Mobley, Charlyn Partridge & Zach Cress).
Loren Mendoza, Kenyon Mobley and the pipefish piñata. Fiskebäckskil 2006. Photo: Lotta Kvarnemo.
Leon Green loading round gobies in Grieterbusch, Germany. April 2016. Photo: Lotta Kvarnemo.
Leon & Eric filming close-ups of broad-nosed pipefish at Kristineberg for a documentary. Photo: Lotta Kvarnemo
Four "generations" of sand & common goby researchers (from left):
Eva-Lotta Blom, Ola Svensson, Lotta Kvarnemo & Carin Magnhagen, celebrating Eva-Lottas successful PhD thesis defense. September 2017. Photo: Clara Amorim.
Lotta posing with Sir Jimmy Shand (the Queen's accordion player) in Auchtermuchty, on paper writing visit to S:t Andrews, Scotland, September 2017. Photo: David Shuker.
John Fitzpatrick and Leon Green discussing "sperm adaptations in euryhaline gobies" at Leon's Licentiate thesis seminar, November 2017.
Time to think - Leon at writing retreat in Turku, August 2019
Dave Shuker in Gothenburg, November 2021
Erica Leder in Gothenburg, November 2021
Round goby expedition to Hisingen, April 2022 (from left: Abril Reynés, Lisa Carlsson, Maja Lagerqvist, Kirsten Wohak, & Leon Green)
Getting ready to catch pipefishes, April 2022 (Anna Waffender, left, Ingrid Ahnesjö, center & right)
Seahorse work at Woodman Point, Australia, 2007. Photo: Sami Merilaita.
Pipefish team 2006 (from left: Kenyon Mobley, Ines Braga Goncalves, Loren Mendoza, Gry Sagebakken, Lotta Kvarnemo).