Final Week-Mikaela
I can’t believe my internship is already over. The last couple weeks have been super busy and flew by. In my last post I talked about the island trip that I was going to go on. Well let’s just say that trip was the highlight of my summer. Everyone who was going on the trip […]
Week Five-Mikaela
This week has flown by! It’s crazy to think that my internship is almost over. Tomorrow morning at 6 am I am heading on a 4 day camping trip to the Chanel Islands with Bob and his undergraduate class. I’m really looking forward to going because multiple people from my lab and my dorm have […]
Week Four-Mikaela
The past week in the lab Stephanie and I continued to dissect her invertebrates, dry and then grind her samples. Our samples each week consist of 10 styela, 10 mussels and 8 scallops (the scallops are harder to come by so we had to adjust to the total sample size and figure out how to […]
Week Three
During the third week I continued to help Stephanie with her project, all of the containers of carbon-13 enriched phytoplankton have been fed to the organisms so now it is time to start testing the impact of the feeding. We collected samples of the organisms that have been fed the enriched phytoplankton and samples that […]
Week Two
The second week of the internship things have gone much more smoothly. Since we found housing that is close to campus I have been able to ride my bike to the lab everyday. At the lab I’ve worked more with the college intern Stephanie and helped her with her project. I learned that a large […]
Week One
I arrived in Santa Barbara mid-day on Monday and my parents drove me up to the house that I was going to be staying in. It was high up on the hills outside of the city and when we got there was saw the most beautiful home. The house was originally a Spanish misson, then […]