{"id":7535,"date":"2023-07-19T00:30:29","date_gmt":"2023-07-19T00:30:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/salishseasciences.org\/blog\/?p=7535"},"modified":"2023-07-26T22:37:33","modified_gmt":"2023-07-26T22:37:33","slug":"project-palooza","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/salishseasciences.org\/blog\/project-palooza\/","title":{"rendered":"Project Palooza!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

We are now in the full swing of our projects. Today, we spread out across San Juan Island and had a slow and steady day, some of us collecting data and resources, while others stayed back at the dorm and did more research.

One of our beloved peers, Hannah, had a full day at Friday Harbor Labs researching her Tunicate embryos under the guidance of Dr. Billie J Swalla. Olivia and Khadija were also at Friday Harbor Labs, searching for decorator crabs. Unfortunately for them, their search proved fruitless and yielded no crabs whatsoever. On the other hand, many people were out in the fields, scrounging San Juan Island’s many beaches for data and materials for their projects and busting with excitement. Maddie and Philip went venturing out into the harsh lands of False Bay, where they encountered trials and tribulations in the form of nasty spikes and heavy water buckets. Tommy and Ethan were also on the great plains of False Bay, scavenging for an assortment of bubble snails. On the other side of the island, Finlee went to the joyous Fourth of July beach, to collect eelgrass specimens and photograph them. Vedha was also with Finlee, and, with the help of Emma, took soil samples and identified different species of seaweed within quadrats.

We ended the day with a presentation from Dr. Tom Mumford, who is an active voice in the kelp community where he stresses the importance of protecting kelp and the species that rely on kelp. His current projects are “Kelp Recovery Plan for Puget Sound, Washington” and the development of the Ocean NOMAD (Nautical Off-shore Macroalgal Autonomous Device) for low-cost production of biomass of food, fuel and feed. We urge anyone who is interested in kelp to check him out.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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A beautiful picture of False Bay by our very own James Thomas Jerome Becker while him and Ethan were on the hunt for Bubble Snails<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Here we see a very real photo of Philip “6’2” Yohan Miller<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Today was a truly action packed day, but maybe the real action was the friends we made along the way. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Signing off for now, <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Salish Sailors<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

We are now in the full swing of our projects. Today, we spread out across San Juan Island and had a slow and steady day, some of us collecting data and resources, while others stayed back at the dorm and did more research. One of our beloved peers, Hannah, had a full day at Friday Harbor Labs researching her Tunicate embryos under the guidance of Dr. Billie J Swalla. Olivia and Khadija were also at Friday Harbor Labs, searching for decorator crabs. Unfortunately for them, their search proved fruitless and yielded no crabs whatsoever. On the other hand, many people were out in the fields, scrounging San Juan Island’s many … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":196,"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\/7535"}],"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\/196"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/salishseasciences.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7535"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/salishseasciences.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7535\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7742,"href":"https:\/\/salishseasciences.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7535\/revisions\/7742"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/salishseasciences.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7535"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/salishseasciences.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7535"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/salishseasciences.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7535"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}