Hey all! I kicked off this week by collecting some new Dungeness crab megalopae, which are the last larval stage before they turn into juvenile little crabs. The megalopa have little tails that you can see in this photo. When they are ready to leave this stage, their tails will tuck underneath them and they will molt and leave their previous shells behind.
Today we are beginning the construction of the flumes and ocean acidification simulators, which are the mixing PVC pipes, Equilibrium pipes and a bucket and many MANY tubes. We are designing a way to get the most amount of CO2 to react with the water before it reaches the actual tank containing crabs, this way it will keep the pH of the tank more stable. Friday was also a huge day. We went out with one of our fellow interns, Sofia, who is in the South Slough lab. We went with her on Friday to help her document the endangered plant species Bird’s Beak, and we helped her collect soil samples, map, and flag where we found them. We went up and back down the estuary of the South Slough. I am running out of the amount words I can use, but this place has given me the best hands on experience and I am so grateful to have learned so much in my two weeks that I have been here. Besides all the science stuff, us interns do manage to have a grand old time. This week was filled with watching Blue Planet II, hikes through sunset bay and Cape Arago in our free time. Honestly the photos that we have taken does not this place justice. Everything is so picturesque and is a true adventure. On Thursday one of the University of Oregon students led us down this path into a cave and down a cliff where we had to scale it with a rope (really wasn’t that steep, but for me it was crazy). It led out into this look out and we watched the sunset together. It was one of those sunsets that really makes you watch it and take in all of its beauty.
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AuthorHannah is an undergraduate student at UCLA studying Marine Biology and minoring in theater. She's just a gal who wants to be an adventurer both in the outdoors and her research. Check out her blog! Archives
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