Professor Alex Werth attended the annual meeting of the Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology (SICB), which was held this January (3-7) in Salt Lake City, Utah. He presented results of his research on the baleen filtering mechanism of large whales, giving a poster entitled “Flow-dependent porosity of baleen.” The meeting offered a great chance for Prof. Werth to catch up with old friends (including a former grad school mate now teaching at JMU) make some new research contacts, and spread the word about H-SC.