Welcome back readers! It’s week 7 already, time truly flies. This week I’ve been doing the same thing for the whole week. I’ve been using ImageJ (a Java-based image processing program) to calculate the area of the still images. The density of the sea stars would be calculated after all the areas are calculated. Besides calculating the area of the still images some other activities happened this week. On Tuesday we had our weekly lunch with Maya and Nichole which is always delightful. In the afternoon we had a professional development session that was focused on how to get into grad school. We had faculty like Svetlana Maslakova and Craig Young speak about what they look for when choosing a grad student. We also had former REUs give their experiences and advice on how they applied to grad school and the challenges they faced. In my opinion, it was the best professional development session we had to date.
On Wednesday we had lunch with Ali Helms from South Slough. She told us about some of the conservational work she does, and she also spoke t us about what made her decide to join the south slough team. We also had a seminar in the boathouse with Dr. Ana Spalding from Oregon State University. She gave a talk entitled “Governing the ocean: (Human dimension of) MPAs as a tool for conservation” It was an interesting talk, and I learned a lot more about MPAs (Marine Protected Areas). Thursday and Friday were mainly focused on doing more work on calculating the area of the still images so I could use it to find the density of the sea stars so I could put that information in my poster draft. However, it was also focused on coming up with an activity to engage the public at the CMLC on Saturday. Since Catalina and I were working on calculating the density of organisms in in kelp forest we decided to collaborate on the CMLC activity. We showed the people that came up to us our initial activity, which was the urchin count. We explained to them about the urchins, and they also tried to count how many urchins were in some of the images. We then each branched off and told people about what we were working on currently and some of the results we gained. People were really interested in our projects and asked some really interesting questions.
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AuthorGreetings, blog readers! My name is J'mie Lawrence and I'm from the Caribbean island of Grenada. I've spent the last year at SWOCC (Southwestern Oregon Community College). My current objective is to earn a transfer degree so that I can enroll in a four-year university to study marine biology. Being able to do marine research with Dr. Aaron Galloway at OIMB is incredibly exciting for me because I've always had a passion for marine biology. Archives
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