Last couple SEMsAS the week went on, I finished prepping my last couple samples and got them ready for SEM. I spent the las two lab days of the week working on SEM for about 6 hours each day. I got some good images and was able to collect enough variation for my project and for the CMLC presentation on the weekend. I ran into a small problem with the SEM machine because it would unfocus and focus while taking images so it was not usable. I had to take a few pictures of the same stubs many times just to get a fully focused one which wasted some time since it takes ~5 minutes to take one image. On Friday, I finished up taking images and organized them on the library computers. For next week I will work on the images on photoshop and get them ready for the poster. The CMLC presentation was a success and really fun. Flynn and I got together a bunch of stuff to show the community. We had Alvinaconcha shells, Ifremeria shells, a photo slide of the SEM images and of the Hydrothermal vents, and some actual Warens larvae that I put under a microscope for people to see. Weekend!After the CMLC presentation, Sebastian and Colleen had live European Green Crabs for their presentation. I asked if I could have them so I can cook them up. They gave me a bucket with about 8 crabs and I cooked them up in the Inverts dorm. I just boiled them in some spices and added them to a pot with a garlic lemon butter sauce. They ended up being pretty good and about 5 of us sat down and ate them together. Sunday was a nice relaxing day as I took it as a personal day to go hike and explore. I started the day by walking to Bastendorff beach at noon and read/sun bathed for an hour or so. I then walked over to the big jetty and sat down and listened to music. I noticed the beach with the train tunnel so I tried to go but the tide was too high. I saw a path that lead up the cliff and I ended up at the top of the cliff. I crawled through some bushes and found myself on the backside of some plot of land with some abandoned buildings. I continued by journey by following a dirt backroad that ended at a round about. I looked on google maps and saw that. I was near a main road and just had to bushwack through about 100 meters of thick forest. I ended up getting stuck in a Blackberry patch which sucked because they have a lot of thorns. I pushed through and finally found the road after some sketchy situations. I was relieved and went straight back to OIMB. I jumped in the water and enjoyed the sun while it was still out. Overall a fun experience but was pretty scary when I was deep in the thick woods with blackberry thorns all over me haha.
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AuthorHello I am Ytxzae Enriquez I am originally from Las Vegas, NV but have been living in Santa Barbara for a while. I just graduated from SBCC with two AAs in Biology. By the end of my career at Santa Barbara City College (SBCC) I really got into the Earth Sciences and I will transfer to University of California: Santa Cruz (UCSC) this Fall as an Earth Science/Ocean Science B.S Major. I really enjoy Surfing, Rock Climbing, Skateboarding, and going on super sick hikes. Archives
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