{"id":3617,"date":"2016-07-13T05:33:42","date_gmt":"2016-07-13T05:33:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/salishseasciences.org\/blog\/?p=3617"},"modified":"2016-07-15T15:01:21","modified_gmt":"2016-07-15T15:01:21","slug":"rabbits-and-earwigs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/salishseasciences.org\/blog\/rabbits-and-earwigs\/","title":{"rendered":"Rabbits and Earwigs"},"content":{"rendered":"

By Sara, Jaimie, Arielle, and Jake \u2014<\/p>\n

Today we woke up at 8:00am and got ready for the day. We started with breakfast which consisted of the normal: bagels, muffins, and cereal. After breakfast we went to the Spring Street International School’s science lab and learned about the invasive rabbits on the island from Beatrice Grauman-Boss.<\/p>\n

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Photo by Tom Grauman<\/p><\/div>\n

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Photo by Seth Grant<\/p><\/div>\n

After learning about the rabbits, we got in the van and went to American Camp to survey the warrens and the number of active entrances.<\/p>\n

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Photos by Tom Grauman<\/p><\/div>\n

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We learned that there is\u00a0about 1 rabbit for every sq. ft in American Camp<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Photos by Seth Grant<\/p><\/div>\n

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Photo by Tom Grauman \u2014 fenced area is (mostly) rabbit-free<\/p><\/div>\n

We spent about 2 hours surveying the area and then returned to the dorms for lunch.<\/p>\n

The survey with Beatrice was part of a longitudinal study\u00a0on behalf of the US National Historical Parks Service<\/a>.<\/p>\n

After lunch, we resumed our earwig trials in the science lab.<\/p>\n

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The focus of our trials today, was to see how much time it takes for the earwigs to acclimatize to sample arenas (Tupperware filled with sand).<\/p>\n

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Once we finished with our trials, some of us went to return earwigs, while others began to work on dinner prep and blogs.<\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong> Soon it was dinner time and we were joined by Jen Olson, the coordinator for the San Juan County Marine Stranding Network<\/a> associated\u00a0with the Whale Museum<\/a> here in Friday Harbor as well as NOAA<\/a> and the SeaDoc Society<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Photo by Seth Grant<\/p><\/div>\n

The Stranding Network is a non-profit organization that researches and helps stranded marine mammals. After dinner, Jen gave a presentation about her work and informed us about the necropsy (animal autopsy) we are going to see tomorrow morning.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

By Sara, Jaimie, Arielle, and Jake \u2014 Today we woke up at 8:00am and got ready for the day. We started with breakfast which consisted of the normal: bagels, muffins, and cereal. After breakfast we went to the Spring Street International School’s science lab and learned about the invasive rabbits on the island from Beatrice Grauman-Boss. After learning about the rabbits, we got in the van and went to American Camp to survey the warrens and the number of active entrances. We learned that there is\u00a0about 1 rabbit for every sq. ft in American Camp. We spent about 2 hours surveying the area and then returned to the dorms for … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":75,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"yes"},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/salishseasciences.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3617"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/salishseasciences.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/salishseasciences.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/salishseasciences.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/75"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/salishseasciences.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3617"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/salishseasciences.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3617\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3666,"href":"https:\/\/salishseasciences.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3617\/revisions\/3666"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/salishseasciences.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3617"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/salishseasciences.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3617"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/salishseasciences.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3617"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}