{"id":6153,"date":"2019-07-29T21:33:41","date_gmt":"2019-07-30T04:33:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/seagrantscholars\/?p=6153"},"modified":"2019-07-29T21:33:47","modified_gmt":"2019-07-30T04:33:47","slug":"time-and-tide-wait-for-no-man","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/seagrantscholars\/2019\/07\/29\/time-and-tide-wait-for-no-man\/","title":{"rendered":"Time and Tide Wait for No Man"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>While the rest of Hatfield was still quiet and unstirring in the early morning hours, Ariana de Souza and I were making our way into the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.epa.gov\/aboutepa\/about-western-ecology-division-wed-epas-national-health-and-environmental-effects-research\">Environmental Protection Agency\u2019s Office of Research and Development<\/a>. We walked down the unusually empty hallway to get suited up. We quickly pulled on our waders and headed out onto the Yaquina bay mudflats with our supervisor, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.researchgate.net\/profile\/James_Kaldy\">Jim Kaldy<\/a>. The sun was just starting to say hello, yet the lights around the bay still twinkled against the cloudy sky. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/osu-wams-blogs-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com\/blogs.dir\/601\/files\/2019\/07\/file-4-1.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/osu-wams-blogs-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com\/blogs.dir\/601\/files\/2019\/07\/file-4-1-123x150.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-6163\" width=\"123\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/osu-wams-blogs-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com\/blogs.dir\/601\/files\/2019\/07\/file-4-1-123x150.jpeg 123w, https:\/\/osu-wams-blogs-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com\/blogs.dir\/601\/files\/2019\/07\/file-4-1-246x300.jpeg 246w, https:\/\/osu-wams-blogs-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com\/blogs.dir\/601\/files\/2019\/07\/file-4-1-768x938.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/osu-wams-blogs-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com\/blogs.dir\/601\/files\/2019\/07\/file-4-1-838x1024.jpeg 838w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 123px) 100vw, 123px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Our goal that morning was to collect over two hundred&nbsp;<em>Zostera marina&nbsp;<\/em>plants before the tide covered them again. I had the best time crawling around in the mud, despite the early wake up time. There was something serene in the air that morning and the water was surprisingly warm.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It has been a few weeks since we collected the&nbsp;<em>Zostera marina&nbsp;<\/em>plants<em>.<\/em>They are now settled into their new homes in the lab. These plants are a part of an ongoing mesocosm experiment. As the weeks go by, we are monitoring the salinity, dissolved oxygen, pH, chlorophyll a and temperature of the water inside the various tanks.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Say tuned to hear about how the mesocosm experiment progresses!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While the rest of Hatfield was still quiet and unstirring in the early morning hours, Ariana de Souza and I were making our way into the Environmental Protection Agency\u2019s Office of Research and Development. 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