{"id":7529,"date":"2023-07-12T22:59:54","date_gmt":"2023-07-12T22:59:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/salishseasciences.org\/blog\/?p=7529"},"modified":"2023-07-26T22:36:14","modified_gmt":"2023-07-26T22:36:14","slug":"poor-porpioses-and-maniac-marinas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/salishseasciences.org\/blog\/poor-porpioses-and-maniac-marinas\/","title":{"rendered":"Poor porpioses and maniac marinas"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

TRIGGER WARNING: Today’s blog post includes pictures of a porpoise necropsy. While the procedure was done respectfully and carefully, the images include blood and\/or other exposed innards of the specimen. Thank you for reading!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Today’s adventures were quite a treat. Recently, a Harbor Porpoise was found floating off of Lopez island, so Friday Harbor Lab’s necropsy of the week was examining this unique creature. It exhibited severe scavenger damage around it’s left eye, and large, evenly spaced lesions on it’s tail stock (the area that connects the body to the tail) likely caused by a boat strike. Without further microscopic investigation or testing, the most clear and probable cause of death was some kind of infection (meningitis or bacteremia of some sort) that entered through the cuts caused by a boat strike and travelled through the blood. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Lesions pictured above were presumed to be an inficted injury caused by a propeller, the infection spreading to the rest of the body (Picture Cred. Hannah) <\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n
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Vetrinarian Dr. Joe Gaydos shows that the lungs of a 7 month old porpoise, an interesting part of the body to see!(Picture Cred. Hannah)<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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After we went back to the dorms for lunch, and some project developement time, we went with our science director Adam Rogowski to examine Fecal coliforms in the Friday Harbor Marina. This bacteria is found, as you might have guessed, in feces or other waste materials from all warm blooded animals, including humans. We came to start the procedure for measuring the concentration of this bacteria in different areas of the marina in order to understand the water’s safety to other animals, where it might be coming from in the case of a high concentration, and how it could affect the local ecosystem.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Todays guests are… US! Tonight Salish Sea Sciences is having Presentation Night. Half of our students will be giving a presentation about a topic of their choice. The other half of our students will be presenting next week, and this week, their job is to introduce a person that is presenting as if they were a scientist joining us for dinner. This will include a brief introduction, and a summary of that students studies. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Some highlights of the presentation included: How breeding 54,000 lobsters can make you a quadrillion dollars, what a sandwhich ACTUALLY is, and the rising of Mario and Luigi, telling us about how our society works in the rising age of the softboys. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Signing off, James, Leo, and Finlee. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

TRIGGER WARNING: Today’s blog post includes pictures of a porpoise necropsy. While the procedure was done respectfully and carefully, the images include blood and\/or other exposed innards of the specimen. Thank you for reading! Today’s adventures were quite a treat. Recently, a Harbor Porpoise was found floating off of Lopez island, so Friday Harbor Lab’s necropsy of the week was examining this unique creature. It exhibited severe scavenger damage around it’s left eye, and large, evenly spaced lesions on it’s tail stock (the area that connects the body to the tail) likely caused by a boat strike. Without further microscopic investigation or testing, the most clear and probable cause of … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":192,"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\/7529"}],"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\/192"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/salishseasciences.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7529"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/salishseasciences.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7529\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7741,"href":"https:\/\/salishseasciences.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7529\/revisions\/7741"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/salishseasciences.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7529"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/salishseasciences.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7529"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/salishseasciences.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7529"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}