{"id":7671,"date":"2022-08-15T17:02:00","date_gmt":"2022-08-16T00:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/seagrantscholars\/?p=7671"},"modified":"2022-08-15T17:02:06","modified_gmt":"2022-08-16T00:02:06","slug":"goodbye-oregon-coast-%e2%98%b9","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/seagrantscholars\/2022\/08\/15\/goodbye-oregon-coast-%e2%98%b9\/","title":{"rendered":"Goodbye Oregon Coast \u2639"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Hello everyone,<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I\u2019ve had an incredible summer working with SEACOR (Shellfish and Estuarine Assessment of Coastal Oregon) at ODFW. I feel so grateful to have gotten the chance to work on such a dedicated and passionate team. \ud83d\ude0a This internship has been so valuable! For example, I knew prior to this summer that I enjoyed fieldwork, but I had never worked in a marine setting. Being able to spend 5+ hours in the water each day was a dream! Even though it can get tiring, it was so fun and cemented what I want to pursue in the future.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This summer has also redefined my career goals. I thought I\u2019d want to work in completely marine settings, with ecosystems such as coral reefs or kelp forests. While I still think these would be amazing to study, I\u2019ve become really interested in estuary work. Estuaries are so important no matter what lens you\u2019re looking through\u2014environmental, economic, and\/or cultural. It has felt super rewarding to study and work with them this summer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I\u2019m very excited to share that I\u2019ll be working at the Smithsonian Marine Station in the Benthic Ecology Lab in Florida starting in September! The research project\u2019s focus is on characterizing the little invertebrates that live at the bottom of an estuary called Indian River Lagoon. The estuary has suffered biodiversity loss caused by many different threats, including harmful algal blooms, development, and excess freshwater input. For 15+ years, the Benthic Ecology Lab has used invertebrate biodiversity as a measure of ecosystem health! I\u2019m incredibly excited to continue my scientific career focused on estuary work and am interested to see how I can apply what I\u2019ve learned in Oregon down there!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Photo 1.<\/strong> Emma Chesley holding a cockle clam on a mudflat in Tillamook Bay. Photo taken by Summer Henricksen on 8\/13\/2022. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Hello everyone, I\u2019ve had an incredible summer working with SEACOR (Shellfish and Estuarine Assessment of Coastal Oregon) at ODFW. I feel so grateful to have gotten the chance to work on such a dedicated and passionate team. \ud83d\ude0a This internship … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12537,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7671","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/seagrantscholars\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7671","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/seagrantscholars\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/seagrantscholars\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/seagrantscholars\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12537"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/seagrantscholars\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7671"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/seagrantscholars\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7671\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7674,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/seagrantscholars\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7671\/revisions\/7674"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/seagrantscholars\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7671"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/seagrantscholars\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7671"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/seagrantscholars\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7671"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}