To continue where I left off last week, camping at Cape Argo had so many fun moments that it was hard to decide which ones to write about. First of all, we camped somewhat near this island of sea lions so at night, when everyone was quiet, you could hear their faint barks. Saturday and Sunday morning we went out to explore two tide pool sites. Each had dozens of species to marvel at and learn about. There were plenty of nudibranchs, starfish, and even a Great Pacific octopus hiding beneath this giant rock. It was a great weekend, and when we got back almost everyone immediately went back to editing their proposal as the presentation deadline was quickly approaching. Our Saturday tide pooling site near Cape Argo included plenty of algae and sea creatures. Monday I saw a new site at Metcalf Islands, we first mapped along the trail leading to marsh and either side there were several dense patches. This site probably had the largest patches out of all the sites I have seen so far. It also seemed to have the most patches of sea lavender, Limonium californicum an indicator of bird’s beak, growing within the bird’s beak patches. This showed in the percent cover quadrats I recorded on the trail. I’m curious to see how the species that show up in areas with bird’s beak compared to those without especially in Metcalf Marsh. I took soil samples from both the trail and the small islands, it was difficult to get soil salinity since it looked as if it was composed of mainly sand! One of the quadrats from Indian Point, this plot has both color variants of bird's beak. Finishing up the mapping at Distant Water Fleet. The next day we mapped along Indian Point. There were much smaller patches here compared to Metcalf but in some of them we saw what looked like both color variants of the species, green and purple. The soil samples here looked similar to what I collected at Metcalf but the percent cover quadrats included no sea lavender. After coming back from the field my mentor went over my proposal, which included going over the main tasks that I will be completing over the next five weeks. Once that was sorted I turned it in and headed over to this week's professional development session. Half of the REU students gave a ten minute presentation on what there project involves and what they expect to get from it.
On Friday I gave a tour of the lab to interns coming from Hatfield. I explained what my project was and what I do in order to get data. I was nervous but I knew that it would be a good practice for the presentation I would have to give to my mentors next week. I’ll definitely write how that turns out in the next entry.
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AuthorI am an incoming third year student at the University of Hawaii at Manoa studying Oceanography. I’m looking forward to learning all I can about the Oregon Coast from this internship! Archives
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