PosterThe week was spent finishing up imaging and working on my poster for the symposium next Friday! I felt pretty good about my poster and have spent full days dedicated to working on the outline and the format of the poster. I have messed around with slightly different formats and I think the one I landed on now works the best. I used Adobe Photoshop and ImageJ to crop and label my SEM images and add scale bars. This wasn't a hard task but it was pretty time consuming. We presented our posters to the other REU interns and Richard/Maya to receive critiques and ideas on how to better the poster. I took everything that was mentioned and tried to add it to the poster! I spent the ladder part of the week tweaking the images and making sure everything is symmetrical and flows. Thanks to the grad students and Flynn, I have people to bounce ideas off of and see what works and is better for the viewer. Slough field tripOn Thursday, Sebastian and Colleen invited me to a quick trip to their mentors house to collect a sediment core sample in the South Slough. An Earth Science professor from OSU came down and we walked from Shawns house down to the muddy area to get a sediment core sample to hopefully see a visual change in sediment from a tsunami that occurred in the 1700s. This could be seen in the core by a quick change in sediment texture and size. We took 100 cm sediment core and actually saw the change in sediment which indicated that there was a huge tsunami back in the 1700s. We then walked back to the house and took the core to the South Slough lab to freeze. WeekendOn Friday after dinner we had a little bonfire at OIMB beach with the UO students since it was most of their last night at OIMB for the summer. I feel like I have became good friends with most of them so it was fun to enjoy the open ocean and the beautiful sunset. We spend the rest of the night chatting in the dining hall until 12 am and shared fun memories and jokes. Saturday was quite fun since we had a crab boil with some South Slough interns at their house up the mountain. We had two 5 gallon buckets of green crabs filled up and spent about an hour cleaning and getting them ready for the boil. The stove at the house was not the strongest and took a while to get the water hot enough to put the crabs in. We added about half a bucket of crab, corn, potatoes, shrimp, and sausage. We finally decided that the crab was cooked and had a grand feast. The potatoes never really cooked but oh well. We enjoyed the night with some drinks and some singing while an intern played the guitar.
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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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