Time is quickly running out! There is only one more week left of this summers REU program! The weekend began with celebrating Nick’s birthday at 7 Devils. The new location was packed, so the cohort filled the patio at the old pub. We had good food, good cake, and many laughs. Then, Maite and I went back to the lab and stayed until the wee hours of the morning dissecting urchins. I was able to collect the digestive systems of all 18 urchins in one (technically two) days! I felt very accomplished afterwards. The next day, we had our lightning talks and OIMB (Nicole) hosted the Invertebrate Ball. The talks went very well, when I finished my portion, Richard gave me TWO thumbs up! At the Invert Ball, everyone dressed up as an invertebrate and walked down a catwalk to show off their creations. I did not have the time to prepare a well thought out costume, so I went dressed up as the queen of sea stars. I wore all pink and got to use the tiara and wand I won at the arcade in Eugene last weekend as a part of my outfit. Andrew and MaKenzie dressed as bipinnaria and won the prize for least anatomically correct! Go REU’s! After the fun weekend, I completed my last day of volunteering at the CMLC. This time I handled completing the full feed by myself (with some help from Trish, of course)! Flash was being very active again; when I fed him he came up to the top of the tank and took the jar of crab right from me. Look at me, casually feeding octopus on Monday mornings. When I was not feeling well this week, I stayed in my dorm and was able to spend some quality time with my poster. I am so appreciative of Reyn and Nicole for assisting me during this time of the week. Nicole made it possible for me to be apart of the weekly professional development from my room via zoom. If felt like I was still there with everyone, listening to Richard and Mayas comments on our poster rough drafts. I asked Reyn if they would bring some soup to the dorms and they MADE miso soup, one of my favorites as a kid. It was so delicious, it reminded me of SoCal and now I am really looking forward to all of the good food I will eat when I get back home. In the lab, I have been doing a LOT of counting plastics and working on my poster. It is grind time! There is always something that needs to be done or can be improved. I have a lot of samples to collect data from before leaving OIMB, so I have been working on fully processing those. Rhoda has been such a big help with this, and this week she has been able to complete the digestion process of the urchin dissection samples. She is another person I am appreciating a lot this week. Reyn has been very helpful in statistically analyzing and putting my data together. Lastly, I have to mention that for one of the dinners this week, we went to Jordans and made fish tacos! While Maite was diving in Port Orford, she caught and filleted some rockfish and brought it back to eat. It was so delicious. We made some rice, beans, and a tomato-less pico de gallo on the side. Yumm.
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Annika SullivanHello blog visitors! My name is Annika Sullivan. I am from Agoura Hills, CA and have been studying at Santa Barbara City College for the last 3 years. This fall I will be attending UC Santa Barbara as an Aquatic Biology major. I have always dreamed of living in Oregon, and now I get to do so while conducting marine research at OIMB under Dr. Aaron Galloway and Dr. Reyn Yoshioka in the CTELab! Archives
August 2021
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