Week four flew by! We have been going nonstop since last Friday when we began our camping trip at nearby Cape Arago State Park. That night was filled with s’mores, laughs, and songs around the campfire. A few of my fellow interns are quite talented on the guitar and ukulele! On Saturday we checked out North Cove. It was a great new site for tide pooling, and we learned a lot. It amazes me that every time I go out to the tide pools, I see so many new organisms. On Saturday, we were joined in our camping endeavors by University of Oregon SPUR students. SPUR students are interns on main campus this summer, and they came to see what OIMB is all about. We had a great time getting to know them and playing some ultimate frisbee, and on Sunday we once again went tide pooling (which we would do every day if we could – it never gets old!). Our big find of Sunday was an octopus. We loved all the festivities but also had research proposals on our minds. On Tuesday, we submitted research proposals detailing the what, how, and why of our projects. Having a clear plan in place to answer our research questions is great, but it was also very helpful to step back and look at the big picture of why our project is important to everyone – not just to those of us who love look at and learn about worms all day. In the lab, we continued PCR and sent a big batch of samples out to California for sequencing. We can’t wait to get the DNA sequences back and find out which species of worms we have been working on for the past couple weeks! Week four also meant that we had to say goodbye to the graduate student who spent the first three weeks of this summer teaching my lab partner Adrian all about nemerteans, PCR, DNA barcoding, and so much more. We are going to miss Christina!
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |
AuthorHi! I’m Megan Powers, a fourth year Biology and Environmental Sciences student at the University of Iowa. Throughout my summer at OIMB, I will be working with the Maslakova lab to assess Nemertean diversity in the Caribbean. Archives
August 2019
Categories |
Proudly powered by Weebly