This week has felt unreal as everything is finishing up. I’ve been a little stressed finishing my poster (thank you Nicole for letting me re-print when the first thing I noticed about my beautiful printed poster was an error!) and I’ve also been so sad about leaving this wonderful place and these wonderful people. It hasn’t quite hit me yet that I have to leave, but I know the connections I made with the mentors, researchers, and especially the other interns and UO students will last beyond these 9 short weeks. This week was the final week of intensive crab trapping for the long-term monitoring project, so I got to visit every site again and do one final round of green crab measurements. On tuesday we caught over 300 green crabs between two sites, so I recruited some help so I wouldn’t be stuck in the lab measuring forever! Because the other interns are pretty much done, it was fun to show them a little bit of what I’ve been up to. Thank you to Sofia, Megan, Matt, Adrian, and Phillip for helping me with various things this week! I finally caught a predation event on camera! I have a time-lapse of pictures that show the full interactions. It was good to watch all the photos of various trials and confirm that the red rock was the predator, and the green crab would never also participate in predation. This helps to back up some assumptions that I was relying on, and strengthen my experiement.
On Friday we had our poster symposium, presenting all our hard work and research that we’ve done this summer. It felt good to show off our projects, and some amazing discoveries have been made this summer. I’m so impressed with the other interns projects as well, and I know we all wish we could stay and do what we love in this special community. Thank you to everyone who made this summer possible, I have been incredibly grateful for this opportunity, and already know that I have furthered my career in exciting ways! Here is my final poster with the experiment that I researched, designed, and carried out:
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AuthorHi! My name is Renee and I am a rising junior at Muhlenberg College in Pennsylvania. I am a double major, studying Biology and Dance. I am so excited to be a part of the Oregon Institute of Marine Biology’s summer REU program and to work with Shon Schooler and the South Slough National Estuarine Research Reserve. Archives
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