By Leila Lemos, PhD candidate, Fisheries and Wildlife Department Time has flown. It seems that it was like a month ago that I received the news that I was approved in a public notice from the Brazilian government to study abroad, and began the process of moving to Oregon. But actually almost three years have … Continue reading How to apply my PhD?
Joe Haxel, Acoustician, Assistant Professor, CIMRS/OSU Greetings GEMM Lab blog readers. My name is Joe Haxel and I’m a close collaborator with Leigh and other GEMM lab members on the gray whale ecology, physiology and noise project off the Oregon coast. Leigh invited me for a guest blog appearance to share some of the acoustics … Continue reading Coastal oceanography takes patience
By Alexa Kownacki, Ph.D. Student, OSU Department of Fisheries and Wildlife, Geospatial Ecology of Marine Megafauna Lab This was the very first lecture slide in my population dynamics course at UC Davis. Population dynamics was infamous in our department for being an ultimate rite of passage due to its notoriously challenging curriculum. So, when Professor … Continue reading What REALLY is a Wildlife Biologist?
By Dawn Barlow, MSc Student, Department of Fisheries and Wildlife The days are growing shorter, and 2017 is drawing to a close. What a full year it has been for the GEMM Lab! Here is a recap, filled with photos, links to previous blogs, and personal highlights, best enjoyed over a cup of hot cocoa. … Continue reading GEMM Lab 2017: A Year in the Life
By Alexa Kownacki, Ph.D. Student, OSU Department of Fisheries and Wildlife, Geospatial Ecology of Marine Megafauna Lab A lab is a family. I know there is the common saying about how you cannot choose your family and you can only choose your friends. But, I’d beg to differ. In the case of graduate school, especially … Continue reading We Are Family
By Florence Sullivan, MSc, GEMM Lab Research Assistant This summer, I had the pleasure of returning to Port Orford to lead another field season of the GEMM Lab’s gray whale foraging ecology research project. While our goal this summer was to continue gathering data on gray whale habitat use and zooplankton community structure in the … Continue reading New steps towards community engagement: introducing high schoolers to the field
By Quince Nye, GEMM Lab Summer Intern, Pacific High School Junior I have spent a lot of my life surrounded by nature. I like to backpack, bike, dive, and kayak in these natural environments. I also have the luck of having parents who are always planning to take me on another adventure where I get … Continue reading The passion of a researcher
By Nathan Malamud, GEMM Lab summer intern, Pacific High School senior I am someone who has lived in a small town for all his life. Pretty much everyone knows each other by their first name and my graduating class only has around 20 people. Everywhere you look you will find a farm, ranch, or cranberry … Continue reading Curiosity and Community, new ways of exploring our environment.
Guest writer: Maggie O’Rourke-Liggett, GEMM Lab summer intern, Oregon State University, One of the biggest obstacles an undergraduate can face is fulfilling the degree requirement of completing an internship or research opportunity. With almost every university and degree program requiring it for graduation and many employers requiring prior experience, the amount of pressure and competition … Continue reading A Little Slice of Heaven
By Leila Lemos, Ph.D. Student, Department of Fisheries and Wildlife, OSU On June 6th the GEMM Lab officially started the second year of fieldwork of our “Noise Physiology” Project with gray whales along the Oregon coast. To date, we have spent 14 days at sea (12 around the Newport area and 2 in Port Orford, … Continue reading New and old methods in our gray whale field season 2017