By: Saymirah

Being considerate, Caroline let us sleep in after a late night at the play, which led to a nice brunch of chocolate chip pancakes and eggs with cheese. Afterwards,we had down time to either go to the Art Market or walk around town. When we got back to the dorm, we were surprised to get iPads from the Friday Harbor Laboratories for our documentary on tide pools. Tom gave us an introduction to how to document the photos we took.

Dennis Willows joined us for dinner. He is a retired professor of neurobiology as well as a former Friday Harbor Labs Director for over 33 years. He explained how he found his way into biology research and his experiment of testing nudibranchs and other marine animals for their reaction to the earth’s magnetic field.

To end the night, we had a teleconference with Megan Cook, a science writer who was aboard the Exploration Vessel Nautilus. She explained her journey with a team of scientists into the Gulf of Mexico looking for hydrocarbon seeps and brine pools deep down on the ocean floor using remotely operated vehicles.