The deadline for posters on Friday really had people buckling down to get all their data collected and analyzed. On Monday I uploaded GPS points from the Winchester arm boat trip on Friday and started making graphs to compare soil composition and salinity. Later on that day, my lab partner and I got to go on a hike to one of South Slough’s weathering monitoring stations. We learned that the station collects data on rainfall, wind speed/direction, sunlight, and much more. We helped upload all the data collected in the past month onto a computer and checked if everything in the station was still intact. Renee checking one of the panels of the weathering monitoring station. This week’s professional development was just us presenting our poster drafts to the group and receiving comments. Seeing how everyone else presented their data was nice since it not only made me understand their projects more but it also gave me ideas on how to edit my own poster. The main comment I got on mine was to make the distribution map bigger, and the only way to do that is to make space by shortening my sentences which is only getting tougher. On Wednesday I headed out to the marshland directly behind Metcalf Islands to collect the last soil samples needed for my project. This place is known as Metcalf Sentinel and will be known as one of the absent birds beak sites. I took samples near the transects set up in the lower marsh area, a place birds beak would most likely be if it grew there. After they were brought back, sieved, dried, and weighed I was able to complete my graphs for soil salinity and grain size. I still have to edit for my graph on associated species and will do that over the weekend. Metcalf Sentinel, one of the sites where birds beak is absent. A jellyfish washed up in one of Metcalf Sentinel's channels. In non-research related news the OIMB Invertebrate ball was on Thursday. I dressed as my favorite nudibranch, Plakobranchus ocellatus, it was interesting to see what people used to make their costumes and cupcakes were beautiful and delicious! Next week my mentor and I will mainly be working on analyzing what factors are affecting the distribution of birds beak the most. I’ll definitely post about it in next week’s blog, my last one! Invertebrate Ball Cupcakes!
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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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