Cheers to the three-day weekend! The 4th of July weekend was filled with exciting activities. We had fun going to the beach and enjoyed the cold water during these past couple of warm summer days. Some of the other interns and I also had a chance to stop by the Charleston Marine Life Center (CMLC) right across from OIMB and look around. It was a great experience seeing the variety of sea animals on display there. We even got to watch the workers feed the wolf eel and the octopus they have: these were cool highlights. I highly recommend the CMLC to anyone visiting Charleston looking for a fun way to spend a couple of hours. The beginning of the week was dedicated to going out in the field to collect sand dollars. With the help of two fellow intern’s (J’mie and Ytxzae) we went out on a boat to collect sand dollars. We pulled a small biological dredge across bottom at 45ft of water and after a couple of minutes pulled it up filled with sand dollars. After three drags we had collected more than enough sand dollars that I will use to spawn back in the lab for my project.
This weekend we are also going on another bigger boat trip with all of the interns here. Safe to say I will have been on a boat three times in the span of one week, which is more than I have gone in the past several years. Overall, I have been a little stressed trying to get a routine down for my research project as the weeks are passing by faster than I anticipated but it’s still early so I am sure that I will find my rhythm soon enough.
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AuthorMy name is Victoria I am from Palmdale, CA but over my life I have moved around a lot and lived different places. I love to travel and explore, especially along the coast. I am a Zoology major studying at Cal Poly Humboldt and like to spend time reading about animal behavior. Archives
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