{"id":5756,"date":"2018-08-21T13:11:04","date_gmt":"2018-08-21T20:11:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/seagrantscholars\/?p=5756"},"modified":"2018-08-23T09:32:23","modified_gmt":"2018-08-23T16:32:23","slug":"goodbye-oregon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/seagrantscholars\/2018\/08\/21\/goodbye-oregon\/","title":{"rendered":"Goodbye Oregon!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Living in Oregon was a whole new two-month life. I\u2019ve thought for a while now about leaving for somewhere where I\u2019d know no one and nowhere to challenge myself and call it an adventure. This wasn\u2019t a difficult challenge. This isn\u2019t because I\u2019m comfortable everywhere I go and am an adaptation queen, but that I am extremely lucky. I am lucky that I loved my position working with ODFW. I am lucky the people I got to work with became mentors professionally and friends personally. I am lucky to have lived in a beautiful and quaint coastal town. I am lucky that my dorm hallmates were genuine, fun, and loved talking about and collecting plants. I am lucky that every single 2018 Oregon Sea Grant Summer Scholar is a wonderful person to know, and the lovely ladies who ran this program did a heck of a job. For all these things I feel lucky for, I am thankful.<\/p>\n

As I write this I am sitting in a study room at my college, Virginia Tech. I\u2019ve jumped right back into my normal life, it\u2019s been a hectic transition. As I placed my few Oregon keepsakes on my shelf last night I had a lot of fun telling my college roommates about them. I have a small stuffed bear dressed as a park ranger I bought during our midsummer camping mishap that left us to eat at a local restaurant that had a cute gift store. I have posters of bay clam and crabs I used to refer to every time I measured samples, now I know more than what the posters say. I bought a piece of cement imprinted with a leaf from a day trip down to Bandon I showed them. I gave my roommate an art print of a caribou I found at the Oregon Coast Aquarium. My shelf holds souvenirs of my summer memories.<\/p>\n

I had a lot of firsts this summer, I\u2019ll try to list all of them but know after I post this blog I\u2019ll think of even more.<\/p>\n

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  1. Tried an Oyster that I didn\u2019t like.<\/li>\n
  2. Tried a tamale that I did like.<\/li>\n
  3. Drove a boat.<\/li>\n
  4. Went camping (in a tent, so real camping.)<\/li>\n
  5. Went to Oregon!<\/li>\n
  6. Went to California!<\/li>\n
  7. Saw the Redwoods.<\/li>\n
  8. White water rafting.<\/li>\n
  9. White water kayaking.<\/li>\n
  10. Went into a cave (with a guide and didn\u2019t touch anything of course.)<\/li>\n
  11. Dug for clams.<\/li>\n
  12. Ate new berries: Huckleberry, Marionberry, Salmonberry, Salal Berry.<\/li>\n
  13. Held a live shrimp.<\/li>\n
  14. Stayed in a hotel room by myself.<\/li>\n
  15. Witnessed smoke from forest fires.<\/li>\n
  16. Saw Harbor Seals in the wild.<\/li>\n
  17. Saw Bald Eagles in the wild.<\/li>\n
  18. Saw a porcupine in the wild.<\/li>\n
  19. Saw whales in the wild.<\/li>\n
  20. Entered the Pacific Ocean.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    I will miss my wild and wonderful Oregon coast adventure with the people who made it so hard to leave.<\/p>\n

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    Bob Mapes, Mo Bancroft, and I are ready to dig a detailed assessment method (DAM) sight to search for clams, crabs, and shrimp.<\/p><\/div>\n

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    The 2018 Oregon Sea Grant Summer Scholars! Pictured are also Sarah Kolesar and Anne Hayden-Lesmeister, the Research and Scholars Program Leader and Assistant.<\/p><\/div>\n

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    Liz Perotti, Bob Mapes, Tammy Chapman, and I on board “Saxidomus,” one of ODFW’s boats.<\/p><\/div>\n

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