{"id":6319,"date":"2019-08-19T22:27:58","date_gmt":"2019-08-20T05:27:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/seagrantscholars\/?p=6319"},"modified":"2019-08-19T22:28:05","modified_gmt":"2019-08-20T05:28:05","slug":"farewell-post","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/seagrantscholars\/2019\/08\/19\/farewell-post\/","title":{"rendered":"Farewell Post"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

It\u2019s just hit me today that I\u2019m really leaving the Oregon\nSea Grant Summers Scholar program this week. It\u2019s really felt like home the\nlast few weeks. The people I\u2019ve gotten to know here have been some of the\nkindest, funniest, and most passionate people I\u2019ve met. I\u2019m so glad I got to\nparticipate in this program. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Research Symposium<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

This past week has been a lot of fun. Our research symposium\nwas on Friday, where we presented our research poster and did a five minute\nlightning talk to introduce our research. Autumn and I split up our projects at\nthe EPA and I presented on the Zostera\nMarina<\/em> mesocosm experiment, seeing how changing temperatures affects the\nrelationship Zostera Marina<\/em> has on\ncarbonate chemistry in estuarine waters. It was a lot of fun to talk about and\ntry to explain in five minutes. I had a blast talking with people about the\nresearch. Afterwards I made a blackberry pie and invited the Summer Scholars\nwho were still in Newport after the conference, as well as Suhn\u2019s roommates, to\neat! It was a great time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We went to the beach!<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

On Sunday, Nikki, Autumn, Suhn and I went to the beach! Suhn and I thought it would be a great idea to bury me in sand. Meaning, he said \u201cCan I bury you in sand\u201d and I said \u201csure.\u201d By then time he was done the only thing emerging from the sand was my head and my cap. I would not say the experience was worth it, per se, but I don\u2019t regret it. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Suhn and I then rented a canoe and we spent two hours on the lake. We were zooming the first hour, feeling pretty great about ourselves and our innate athletic abilities, and then when we had to turn back, Oregon decided to make us work for it. The wind was blowing so hard that if we stopped we\u2019d start moving back very quickly, so we rowed like crazy until we got back! We also met an adorable corgi named 2020 (that\u2019s what his nametag said) who was chilling in the shade near the docks, living his best life. All in all, a wonderful sandy Saturday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Leaving the EPA<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

I\u2019ve started the process of paperwork to end my internship at the EPA and I\u2019m so sad about it. I am stunned by how warm, friendly, and inviting the members of the Newport Western Ecology Division of EPA were to Autumn and me. I couldn\u2019t have asked for a better environment to do summer research, and I\u2019m going to miss this place very much. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Thank you!!<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

So many people made this summer absolutely incredible! Thank you to my mentors, Jim Kaldy, Cheryl Brown, and Stephen Pacella, and to Beth Rutila and T Chris Mochon Collura! The people we worked with at the Oregon Sea Grant, including Jenny Engels, Stephanie Ichien, and Sarah Kolesar, were so friendly and fun! Finally thank you so much to my fellow Summer Scholars Autumn Herrington, Dominique Zuk, Naomi Scott, Suhn Brown, Hannah Sinclair, Honour Booth, and Melissa Wood, for being amazing and welcoming and making me feel at home! And thank you to everyone reading the blog, we really appreciate it!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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