Alannah Wister: Marine Biology, Week Six
Monday I worked primarily on beginning my methods and procedures portion for the paperthat will hopefully be published by the end of the eighteen month experiment. I also finished placing the coral nubbins in the rack for the flow experiment. This was by far my favorite part of the entire process because I got to […]
Alannah Wister: Marine Biology, Week Five
Rob Toonan got back from his trip Monday and after hearing how efficient I have been he gave me the day off. I was able to help my roommates with their projects and sunbathe on the beach for the rest of the day. Tuesday was exciting because we got to take a break from […]
Alannah Wister: Marine Biology, Week Four
I began this week by prepping my notebook with all the tables that I needed for measurements on Thursday and Friday. The beginning of the week was not busy as there was not much for me to do Monday and I had Tuesday and Wednesday off for Fourth of July celebrations! On Tuesday I helped my roommate […]
Alannah Wister: Marine Biology, Week Three
Welcome back! At the beginning of this week I photographed two trays full of bricks with coral growth experiments on each of the five sides. Then I spent two days cataloging the images and measuring them while entering the data into an excel spreadsheet. I was extremely excited to see our Montipora Capitata healthily recovering fast because there […]
Alannah Wister: Marine Biology, Week Two
Hello again! During my second week at HIMB I focused primarily on my experiment regarding multi species coral growth. The process for all three of my experiments is similar, rigorous, time consuming and must be very precise. This week we epoxied and mounted all of the corals for the multi-species project and also we had […]
Alannah Wister: Marine Biology, Week One
My name is Alannah Wister and I am one of the five selected interns from Ouray High School. I just begun my internship in Marine Biology at the Hawaii’ Institute of Marine Biology on Coconut Island, Hilo, HI.I arrived at the Honolulu airport where I was greeted by Rob Toonan where he generously met me […]