{"id":8472,"date":"2025-07-11T03:55:41","date_gmt":"2025-07-11T03:55:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/salishseasciences.org\/blog\/?p=8472"},"modified":"2025-07-12T01:07:34","modified_gmt":"2025-07-12T01:07:34","slug":"day-12-sealgrass","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/salishseasciences.org\/blog\/day-12-sealgrass\/","title":{"rendered":"Day 12: Sealgrass"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Thursday, July 10th, 2025; by Asher, Mira, Noam, and Vidita<\/strong> <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Lars and Mira trampling eelgrass (Photo from Maya)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n


Today we were thankfully back to waking up at our regular time. We had breakfast at 8:00 and headed out a bit after 9:00, returning to 4th of July Beach to do an eelgrass survey! We were helping the San Juan Conservation District, as their eelgrass conservation crew is only two\u00a0 people (Mitch McCloskey and Sage, who we had over for dinner last week), making it difficult for them to get work done quickly. While there, we made note of the population of flowering heads and did several treatments to determine the effect of harvesting. We also saw many megafauna, including a giant dungeness crab, many shore crabs, and several species of bird.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Miles holding a Dungeness crab (Photo from Orrin)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

We returned to the dorms for lunch after a brief detour to look for orcas that we tragically did not see, then headed out again to pull in plankton down at the marina and examine it under our microscopes. We found many types of zooplankton and phytoplankton, including baby jellyfish and some krill. Although the lab was rather hot, it was worth it to observe these fascinating organisms.
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A copepod in the genus Euchaetidae (Photo from Miles)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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A zoomed out microscope, showing many different types of plankton (Photo from Mira)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

After free time and dinner prep, we had dinner with Jess Farrar, the research director at the Friday Harbor Whale Museum. She gave us an interesting lecture about her journey into the marine science world and pinniped<\/a> facts. Some highlights include smiling at cute baby seals, learning about opportunities to contribute to The Whale Museum<\/a> exhibits, and the entire room gasping at the story of \u201cHoover<\/a> the harbor seal\u201d who imitated his owner’s thick New England accent. We ended the presentation with a round of applause and several more questions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Thursday, July 10th, 2025; by Asher, Mira, Noam, and Vidita  Today we were thankfully back to waking up at our regular time. We had breakfast at 8:00 and headed out a bit after 9:00, returning to 4th of July Beach to do an eelgrass survey! We were helping the San Juan Conservation District, as their eelgrass conservation crew is only two\u00a0 people (Mitch McCloskey and Sage, who we had over for dinner last week), making it difficult for them to get work done quickly. While there, we made note of the population of flowering heads and did several treatments to determine the effect of harvesting. We also saw many megafauna, … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":263,"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\/8472"}],"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\/263"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/salishseasciences.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8472"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/salishseasciences.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8472\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8481,"href":"https:\/\/salishseasciences.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8472\/revisions\/8481"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/salishseasciences.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8472"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/salishseasciences.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8472"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/salishseasciences.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8472"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}