Yar’, I reckon that a many of us have been feeling a wee bit burned out from our research doing at the OIMB. Tis’ past weekend was a great way of resting our sea legs and wandering about at Cape Arago. I, along with the rest of the REUs spent the weekend camping. At first I felt a bit worried that I wouldn’t have enough time to work on my proposal, but then I figured that I should just roll with it and plug out from the stress of lab work.
There were boatloads of critters we saw down at the tidepool and I would love to post each one of them, but alas this is a blog post and not a photo album. I am however, going to mention how we saw a giant pacific octopus in the tidepools as well! Unfortunately, we could not get a good picture of it as it was dwelling in its den, but its suckers were the size of the nudibranch that I am holding in the following picture. Was quite a lovely site, and I was particularly chipper after I saw it. Especially since I’ve been wanting to see an octopus since the first day I have been in Charleston, Oregon. On our second day we had shared our campground with the UO SPUR students, and we managed to play a game of ultimate frisbee between both camps. As you could imagine, the REUs beat the SPUR students to 10! Not that it needed to be said. On our way back we all got to enjoy ice cream that Richard had bought for all of us. Before you knew it the night-sky was upon us and we got to spend time over the bonfire. When dusk rose, we went tide-pooling one last time before we headed back to OIMB. The following Monday we went back to humming along in our old routine. We did get to spend our Tuesday presenting our proposals (which had ended up turning out fine), and followed it up by celebrating a job well done and Christina’s going away at one of the local dive bars. This entire time that I have been in this program, Christina has been at the helm of the Maslakova lab while Svetlana has been doing research abroad. She did a great job of making sure that the ship did not crash at the hands of two REUs and I can honestly say that I credit her for me being able to pick up PCR as well I have. In all honesty, the ship would’ve only crashed in my bumbling hands, but I can safely say it did not. I may not have perfected PCR (yet!), but I grew much, much more comfortable because of her mentorship. I could not have imagined my REU experience having gone nearly as well without her and I will be forever grateful for her patience and all her sage teachings and advice. Cheers!
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Kaylee Wilkinson
7/15/2019 04:52:28 pm
Great pictures Adrian! I loved what you had to say about the tide-pools, and it is neat to have a different experience every time you go. - Looking forward to more posts!
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