{"id":8252,"date":"2024-07-29T23:30:15","date_gmt":"2024-07-29T23:30:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/salishseasciences.org\/blog\/?p=8252"},"modified":"2024-07-30T01:47:39","modified_gmt":"2024-07-30T01:47:39","slug":"salish-sea-ecology-day-9-6-29","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/salishseasciences.org\/blog\/salish-sea-ecology-day-9-6-29\/","title":{"rendered":"Day 9: Poop water!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Blog by Maxene, Sophia, Morgan, and Carlos<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Today we woke up at 8 am. Cloudy skies and rain welcomed us to start the day. We soon had breakfast at 8:15 am. We ran out of everything bagels, which as of today we now know is everyone’s favorite breakfast item! So sad, everyone started crying. (It’s chill though ‘cuz we had plenty of oatmeal and other things) \ud83d\ude42 <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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PC: Maxene – Iced caramel oat milk latte !! (not poop water..)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

For today’s main activity, we surveyed the water by the marina! the survey intends to measure the fecal coliform in the water. It’s super important work, as no one else is measuring the fecal coliform but us!! (Actually, it’s a longitudinal study for the Port of Friday Harbor, but cool that we’re the one’s who took on this round!)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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PC: Maxene – Leanne expertly measuring water quality at Friday Harbor<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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PC: Sophia – Watts catching fish on the dock<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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PC: Sophia – Watts catching fish on the dock<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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PC: Sophia – Grabbing more water samples at the dock<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

After an hour or so of measuring salinity and temperature and carefully collecting water samples at different test sites around the marina, we brought our samples home to be tested in the Spring Street School’s science lab. We ended the activity with 20 samples of bacteria that are sitting in the incubator as we patiently wait for them to be ready to be tested on. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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PC: Maxene – Adam demonstrating how to test the samples<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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PC: Sophia – Testing water samples<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

After lunch, Dr. Jess Lundquist, Associate Professor of Civl & Environmental Engineering at the University of Washington, joined us at our residence to give us a lecture on her work. Dr. Lundquist’s research focuses on “spatial patterns of snow and weather in the mountains and how those patterns are likely to affect streamflow and water resources in a changing climate.” She shared with us her recent research related to the hydrodynamics of fog and how it informs our understanding of how the heat waves in June of 2021 killed a lot of intertidal organisms. This was very fascinating and sparked some ideas for our Conservation Projects. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Afterward, we worked on our projects for an hour. Many of us were locked in and smashed away at our keyboards in utter silence and focus. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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PC: Maxene – Working on our projects<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Dinner Crew cooked up some good chili and cornbread. We were glad dinner crew found the honey. Because who has cornbread without honey and butter? Tonight we look forward to challenging Emma and Adam’s team to some trivia at JP’s. Bowling and other fun activities will end our wonderful rainy day. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Blog by Maxene, Sophia, Morgan, and Carlos Today we woke up at 8 am. Cloudy skies and rain welcomed us to start the day. We soon had breakfast at 8:15 am. We ran out of everything bagels, which as of today we now know is everyone’s favorite breakfast item! So sad, everyone started crying. (It’s chill though ‘cuz we had plenty of oatmeal and other things) \ud83d\ude42 For today’s main activity, we surveyed the water by the marina! the survey intends to measure the fecal coliform in the water. It’s super important work, as no one else is measuring the fecal coliform but us!! (Actually, it’s a longitudinal study for … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":242,"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\/8252"}],"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\/242"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/salishseasciences.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8252"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/salishseasciences.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8252\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8278,"href":"https:\/\/salishseasciences.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8252\/revisions\/8278"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/salishseasciences.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8252"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/salishseasciences.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8252"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/salishseasciences.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8252"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}