The OIMB Summer REU program is coming close to the end and so the final effort for finalizing data and constructing a poster has taken up the last several days. I had expected the actual creation of a poster to feel like a puny task in comparison to several weeks of dedicated video analysis, and my expectations have been proven wrong. All of the ingredients for a quality poster to represent my summer research are on hand, but it turns out that organizing those ingredients into a concise and coherent display that allows a passerby to understand months of effort at a glance is no easy thing. I am actually still in the process of finalizing my display and I am finding it particularly difficult to fit all of the graphs necessary to express my results in an elegant way. It is easy to lose time on the process of poster beautification, but the organization of a science poster really is important to expressing the elements of research coherently to an audience. The best presentations I have seen in poster rough drafts so far tend to organize their data into columns of descriptive elements, data presentation, and conclusions, while separating major sections with their own containing boxes. My poster creation is made somewhat more urgent because it happens to coincide with my final data analysis and I am finding myself bouncing back and forth between my poster and my data, trying to develop a logical way to present my data while ensuring that it fits nicely into the presentation. This has been a confusing process, but I have found it somewhat helpful in thinking of ways to display my data as any graph that I put together must be immediately judged for its effectiveness in the final product.
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AuthorHello there! My name is Matthew Gimpelevich and I am currently an undergraduate student in my third year of oceanography and engineering at Seattle Central College in Seattle, Washington. I’m lucky enough to be working in the Sutherland lab at the Oregon Institute of Marine Biology where I get to formulate my own methods of studying the pyrosome, Pyrosoma atlanticum, which has recently migrated up the Pacific coast from warmer waters! As an REU intern, I look forward to developing research techniques and methods of organizing and maintaining my own projects! Archives
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