Happy fourth folks, let’s jump right in! To start off last weekend, we went on a guided hike in Sunset Bay, where we identified native, nonnative and invasive plants off the southern coast of Oregon. They also gave us an edible guided tour of what plants were safe to eat and harvest. After the tour was over, we found a path that led down a cliff into the Bay. In between hiking we founded Megalopia, a crab retirement community retrofitted with a skate park, cemetery and even hammock for a crabs to use in the leisure time. We then made our way back to sunset bay to watch the sunset and watch deer graze in the meadow. To wrap up the weekend we had a REU slumber party and pulled our mattresses out into the hallway, because apparently having walls that don’t reach the ceiling isn’t close enough. Besides all of the adventure, we are in full prep mode with our proposals and beginning to build the tanks for our experiments. I have nailed down a question for my project which will be “Does Ocean Acidification affect the foraging ability in juvenile Dungeness crabs?”. So, I will have my little crab condos set up and in two different pH’s. One that represents the pH that they are living in now and a pH that represents what they could be potentially living in, in the future. Then I will be testing out a contraption like this one pictured above. I will fill the left side of the flume with sand and hide food in it and see if the crabs sense the food cues from it and find it. Then I will see if living in that pH will affect their ability to find the food. This past Thursday OIMB had a Fourth of July picnic for all the staff and students. It was so much fun, playing Frisbee and getting egged during the egg toss, and our America themed fasion show. Some of the other students and I even went swimming in the cold north Pacific coast waters. It was super fun and we ended the day by watching the fireworks from the jetty.
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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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