{"id":886,"date":"2011-08-08T10:20:24","date_gmt":"2011-08-08T17:20:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/seagrantscholars\/?p=886"},"modified":"2011-08-08T10:35:15","modified_gmt":"2011-08-08T17:35:15","slug":"sea_gils-blog-pt-8-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/seagrantscholars\/2011\/08\/08\/sea_gils-blog-pt-8-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Sea_Gil’s Blog Pt.8"},"content":{"rendered":"
While the past week was spent adding a number of new species to the spawning period spreadsheet, a good chunk of my time was dedicated to working on my powerpoint for the symposium. My mentor is not going to be in this week, so I wanted to get a rough draft prepared for him to look over. I ended up giving a practice presentation for him and two other EPA colleagues on Thursday. After I went through the whole presentation, we then went back over each individual slide and discussed any changes to be made. There were quite a few suggestions, but I am glad for the constructive criticism because I would like for this presentation to be good.<\/div>\n

On Wednesday, I headed up to Corvallis with Betty and Diego to see them (along with Becca and Chris) play at Bombs Away! Hats off to them for a good show!<\/p>\n

Friday was the day \u00a0I finally got to go out into the field! On a HOVERCRAFT! It was totally awesome! I\u2019d seen a hovercraft going around when I was in Turks & Caicos and it looked pretty cool. I never thought I would actually get to ride in one. I went out with another intern and an EPA worker to help them with collecting some cores in mud flats. Needless to say, I got a bit muddy. Also, I had my first experience with these contraptions called Mudders. They\u2019re these types of \u201cshoes\u201d that are designed to keep you from sinking into the mud. It was weird walking around in them, but I was glad for them because the intern, Rachel, told me she had gotten stuck in the mud a few times on earlier trips when she didn\u2019t have them on. She said she had to be dug out because she couldn\u2019t lift her legs from the mud!<\/p>\n

So that was my work week. My weekend was very fun. Betty, Diego, and I went to Zumba on Friday. A bunch of Hatfield interns then invited us to watch a movie called The Abyss. I confused it with some other movie about people getting stuck in a cave. This one was about divers getting stuck deep in the sea and meeting some interesting, new friends while down there<\/p>\n

Betty and I went to the Yaquina Head Lighthouse on Saturday. I always see it in the distance when walking along the jetty, so I wanted to check it out. Also, I wanted to take some pictures for my grandma because she really likes lighthouses (just emailed her some photos!). We parked outside of the actual park and took a nice walk up there. We didn\u2019t get to go inside because there was a long wait, but it was still nice to just see it.<\/p>\n

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Yaquina Head Lighthouse<\/p><\/div>\n

For dinner, we got to go to BBQ in Siletz at the HMSC director\u2019s house. There was a lot of great food, since it was a potluck. At this point, I\u2019m mostly used to microwaved veggie burgers and tomato soup, so it was nice change. That night, we went out to Nana\u2019s where there was a band playing. After Nana\u2019s, we headed over to Moby Dick\u2019s for some karaoke which is always fun!<\/p>\n

This week will be filled with more slideshow preparation since the Symposium is on Thursday. Hopefully my presentation goes well!<\/p>\n

Oh and I\u2019d like to give an early birthday shout-out to Betty! Wooohooooo!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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