Christina Murphy Featured on Oregon State University Homepage
Noted on September 25, 2008 | By Natanya in
Excerpt from http://oregonstate.edu/home/stories/index.php?story=christine_murphy
"It was a frigid winter night on Chile’s central coast, and Christina Murphy was standing in the surf in her wet suit with a night vision monocular, getting pummeled by waves. She was counting her research subjects — nocturnal, carnivorous crabs of the species Acanthocyclus gayi that hide in algae or rock crevices — unaware that she would later regard the experience as one that cemented her love for her work.
"It was, however, an unsurprising revelation — Murphy has wanted to be a scientist since the age of six, and…