ODFW Adventures: Part VI<\/p>\n
This week I decided to try an old family recipie that has been passed down–but not from my family. My boyfriend Marc constantly talks about eating a dish called “Machaca,” which the internet says is a dish of finely shaved beef, but the Aros family creates with chorizo (mexican sausage) con huevos (with\u00a0eggs). Although I didn’t have the exact recipie, I used my best judgement in making the dish by also using bell peppers, jalepenos, garlic, onion, cayenne powder, cilantro, tomatoes, avocadoes, and tortillas. My creation was, in my mind at least, a success! I have always loved the multiple uses eggs can serve in cooking and baking (including several fried egg sandwichs I made this week), and creating a new taste treat with them is always a pleasure.<\/p>\n
At ODFW I had a fairly slow work week as I finished up couning the herring egg samples, for real this time! Ali and I began using GIS to map all of the GPS points, but we\u00a0will delve into the full proccess this week. This will include mapping local distributions\u00a0into polygons including all egg counts that\u00a0had similar numbers into one polygon, creating layers to the map. We will\u00a0the use those polygons\u00a0to\u00a0estimate the total number of eggs that were laid in the bay, therefore giving us a viable number to base next year’s quota off of. I am excited to be\u00a0in the final working stages of this project,\u00a0and when I am done I will have learned so many techincal details about the computer software I’ve been working with and about\u00a0how fisheries in Oregon are run and determined.<\/p>\n
The\u00a0Nearshore Strategy\u00a0part of things was also a bit slow this week, as\u00a0I only worked on the extensive annotated bibliography that I\u00a0began a few weeks ago. In this process, I have learned that there are likely billions of scientific journal articles that exist in the world, in many many many extremely research-specific journals, that explain\u00a0even the smallest niches of our ecosystems. Which is acutally a pleasant surprise, because I have also learned how many species there are that\u00a0are important\u00a0to the ecosystem they live in that\u00a0people don’t generally\u00a0know about, which therefore leaves them unprotected to any vulnerability.\u00a0This week the bibliography will begin to be useful as my team members begin to draft out sections of the climate change task for\u00a0this\u00a0revision, and I will continue to read articles relating to Oregon’s oceanographic and\u00a0nearshore climate change to expand the bibliography during\u00a0this coming\u00a0week. I hope to be able to report solid progress\u00a0on that for my next blog!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
ODFW Adventures: Part VI This week I decided to try an old family recipie that has been passed down–but not from my family. My boyfriend Marc constantly talks about eating a dish called “Machaca,” which the internet says is a … Continue reading