28 Nov 2001: Kristen and I arrive in Greenville, North Carolina. We buy our first house, Kristen starts her new job as the Executive Director of Spring Arbor Assisted Living and I start setting my lab up in the Department of Biology at East Carolina University.
17 - 19 Dec 2001: Paul Marek (California Academy of Sciences) visits.
2002
1 January 2002: Start date for our (Drs. Marshal Hedin and Jason Bond) project Molecular and Morphological Systematics of the spider infraorder Mygalomorphae (Araneae). NSF DEB0108575 (https://www.fastlane.nsf.gov/servlet/showaward?award=0108575)
5 - 21 Jan 2002: Field work in Arizona, Southern California, and Washington collecting mygalomorph spiders with Hedin.
28 Feb - 3 Mar 2002: Brent Hendrixson visits to consider graduate school here at ECU.
31 Mar - 7 Apr 2002: Ms. Debbie Devonish (University of the West Indies, Mona) comes to the Bond Lab to work on a study of Jamaican millipede morphology (Anadenobous excisus).
20 May - 20 June 2002: Field work in South Africa collecting mygalomorph spiders with Hedin.
August 2002: Brent Hendrixson joins the lab as the first graduate student (Ph.D. student). Brent will be studying Antrodiaetus phylogeny
October 2002: Start of the "Assembling the Tree of Life: The phylogeny of spiders (Araneae)" project (NSF DEB 0228699, under the direction of Ward Wheeler, AMNH).
2003
January 2003: Paul Marek joins the lab as Ph.D. student studying millipede systematics and evolution.
January 2003: Dave Beamer (ECU grad student studying salamanders with Trip Lamb) joins the lab as a research assistant.
22 May - 24 June 2003: Field work in Australia collecting mygalomorphs with Hedin.
June 2003: NSF proposal to purchase of new Environmental Scanning Electron Microscope is funded (MRI: Acquisition of an Environmental Scanning Electron Microscope for Research and Teaching).
21 Sept. 2003: Elisabeth Morgen Bond joins the lab (birth of our daughter).
2004
February 2004: Amy Stockman visits the Bond Lab, to consider graduate school here at ECU. Brent and Dave head to Alabama and Florida to collect spiders and salamanders.
March 2004: Jason, Dave and Chad head out to California to collect spiders. Chad narrowly escapes certain death at airport when two cars collide, only to later get raging case of poison oak.
April 2004: Brent heads out to TN, VA and western NC to collect Antrodiaetus.
May 2004: Brent gets an AAS Systematics Grant and an AMNH Theodore Roosevelt Grant funded.
June 2004: Brent and Dave attend spider meetings in Norman OK. Brent wins best student paper award, Dave wins best poster award.
July 2004: Amy Stockman joins lab as our newest graduate student. Our condolences...
2005
early March 2005: Jason, Dave, and Amy head out to California to collect Promyrmekiaphila for Amy's project and to test GARP analysis predictions. Amy flaunts not getting poison oak.
the following week March 2005: Amy returns home to wake up next morning to find herself covered in Poison Oak. Apparently she is incredibly sensitive to what she terms "devil weed".
May 2005: Brent passes his prelim examination.
May 2005: Amy and Dave learn that their respective Theordore Roosevelt Memorial Fund Grants have been funded.
July 2005: Amy, Dave, Brent, and Jason attend American Arachnological Society Meeting in lovely Akron Ohio.
October 2005: Paul passes his prelim examination..
November 2005: Paul heads out for field work in CA; after 80 years rediscovers Illacme plenipes (the leggiest animal on the planet).
December 2005: Jason heads out for field work in CA; after 30 days rediscovers Illacme plenipes (the leggiest animal on the planet).
2006
January 2006: Amy and Paul head out for field work in CA; see above + 30 days.
February 2006: Amy still has poison oak rash.
March 2006: Paul's Dissertation Improvement Grant from the National Science Foundation is funded.
