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
By Leila Lemos, Ph.D. Student, Department of Fisheries and Wildlife, OSU On September 10th of 2015 I was catching an airplane to start a whole new phase of my life in Oregon, United States. Many thoughts, many doubts, many fears, many expectations, and one big dream that was about to come true: I was finally … Continue reading Migrating to higher latitudes
By Dawn Barlow, MSc Student, Department of Fisheries and Wildlife, Oregon State University The year is rapidly coming to a close, and what a busy year it has been in the Geospatial Ecology of Marine Megafauna Lab! In 2016, our members have traveled to six continents for work (all seven if we can carry Rachael’s … Continue reading GEMM Lab 2016: A Year in the Life
By Leila Lemos, PhD student This summer was full of emotions for me: I finally started my first fieldwork season after almost a year of classes and saw my first gray whale (love at first sight!). During the fieldwork we use a small research vessel (we call it “Red Rocket”) along the Oregon coast … Continue reading The five senses of fieldwork