By: Vedha & Max

Today we woke up early and headed towards Cattlepoint, where we talked to Jessica Lundquist who is a professor at the University of Washington who taught us about coastal fog it was wonderful and very educational, we all learned about electromagnetic radiation and its effects as well as convection cells.

We then headed back to a delicious lunch and brainstormed some ideas for our projects (we all were so excited). After a small break we walked down to the Friday Harbor Marina to investigate the differences in biodiversity in both this area and the Friday Harbor Labs (it was amazing) we saw many different sea animals such as a crab, sea urchins, sponges, kelp, sea cucumbers and more. We then discussed what we saw and prepared for our dinner with Dr. Kenneth Sebens whose interests are in marine benthic ecology, coral reef ecology, hydrodynamic effects on marine benthos and theoretical ecology. After dinner, Dr. Kenneth Sebens presented to us about many of the marine organisms in the Salish Sea. We learned about everything from nudibranchs to bryozoans. Most of us had very little knowledge of marine invertebrates prior to this experience so Dr. Sebens was pretty helpful in teaching us a lot more about them.