{"id":7882,"date":"2023-08-10T04:36:28","date_gmt":"2023-08-10T04:36:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/salishseasciences.org\/blog\/?p=7882"},"modified":"2023-08-10T04:36:29","modified_gmt":"2023-08-10T04:36:29","slug":"whale-museum-invasive-mussel-project-and-independent-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/salishseasciences.org\/blog\/whale-museum-invasive-mussel-project-and-independent-work\/","title":{"rendered":"Whale Museum, Invasive Mussel Project, and Independent Work"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Hi readers!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Welcome back to another day in the lives of Salish Sea Science\u2019s awesome students. Today we woke up at 7:30 and started our day off by driving to Friday Harbor Labs to view another necropsy. However, when we got there, we discovered that there was no necropsy happening today (GASP). Luckily, Adam\u2019s lightning quick thinking saved us. He drove us down to False Bay, an important spot on San Juan Island where all of the bay water completely disappears during low tide. We walked on some of the flats in the bay and found literally tons of crabs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Adam and his super big brain<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Una having her main character moment at False Bay<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

When we were done, we returned to the dorms and got some extra time to work on our final projects. Some of us were very productive, but others(me) got distracted playing Wikiraces 3 and spent more time finding Benedict Cumberbatch\u2019s wikipedia page than working on our projects.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Caleb taking a quick model walking break after working on his project<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

After eating lunch, we left for the Friday Harbor Whale Museum and learned about the massive marine vertebrates that call the Salish Sea home. We got to touch a gray whale\u2019s baleen plate and learned about the Salish Sea\u2019s Resident killer whales. But for some reason, everyone\u2019s favorite part of the museum was the coloring pages they had in the kids section. Relatable.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Us having the time of our lives in the kids section of the Whale Museum<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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The squad outside the Whale Museum while some of us (me) bought insanely overpriced stickers<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

After an eventful time at the whale museum we got to go to the Friday Harbor High School and do some experiments with mussels. Using PCR we will be able to identify which mussels are the invasive species from the Mediterranean, which are native, and which are hybrids of the two. We smashed the mussels (sorry Maya), cut out some membrane, mixed in buffer and proteinase k, and left them to process overnight. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Although it was just thrilling to be in a school during the end of summer, we were excited to go to the thrift store after and try on some ridiculous outfits (I think William would win if it were a competition). <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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William and Caleb pose in their super cute thrift finds, William looks so flirty and feminine!!! Photo credits to Millie\u00a0<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Then everyone had the exact same craving for French fries, lizzy and I went to a restaurant down by the pier while Cleo, William, Una, Millie, Stella and Riya got some from the bait shop. We will be testing tomorrow which fries are better, we\u2019re very excited for round two of French fries. We roamed the town a little bit before coming back to campus to do our jobs like dinner, blogging, and research on our dinner guests. Today Justin Cox and Jessica Farrer from the SeaDoc society who would\u2019ve done our highly anticipated necropsy that we sadly did not have. Lucky for us we have an entire dinner to ask as many questions as possible to make up for it!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Hi readers! Welcome back to another day in the lives of Salish Sea Science\u2019s awesome students. Today we woke up at 7:30 and started our day off by driving to Friday Harbor Labs to view another necropsy. However, when we got there, we discovered that there was no necropsy happening today (GASP). Luckily, Adam\u2019s lightning quick thinking saved us. He drove us down to False Bay, an important spot on San Juan Island where all of the bay water completely disappears during low tide. We walked on some of the flats in the bay and found literally tons of crabs. When we were done, we returned to the dorms and … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":206,"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\/7882"}],"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\/206"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/salishseasciences.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7882"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/salishseasciences.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7882\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7883,"href":"https:\/\/salishseasciences.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7882\/revisions\/7883"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/salishseasciences.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7882"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/salishseasciences.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7882"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/salishseasciences.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7882"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}