Jonah Jodlowski Week 5: Marine Biology
Greetings everyone. This final post is a week late and I am very sorry about that. Bryce and I embarked on a 17-hour road trip behemoth last weekend so there was no time to write this blog. I drove from Santa Barbara back to Telluride in 117-degree weather and can I just say… I will […]
Jonah Jodlowski Week 4: Marine Biology
Happy Sunday everybody! Another week, another experimental failure, and more frustration in the Miller Lab. That is actually an overexaggerati0n. Everyone was calm even though half of the urchin population died off once again. I would say it was a “happy accident” not an experimental failure. Since the urchins were to be sacrificed following the […]
Jonah Jodlowski Week 3: Marine Biology
Good afternoon everybody! Things really started to heat up in the Miller lab this week. I’m talking literally and figuratively. John, another intern also working for Katrina, blew the fuse on our freeze dryer while trying to extract pigment from his algae samples. Oil spewed out everywhere and the smell of burning algae filled the […]
Jonah Jodlowski Week 2: Marine Biology
Hello, hello, and good day fellow super nerds. This week was my second week working at the Marine Science Research Building in Santa Barbara, California. I could go off on this blog about how I had to suck up urchin feces with a large straw but I will save you the stomach juices. Misleadingly, it […]
Jonah Jodlowski Week 1: Marine Biology
Good day fellow Pinheads! My name is Jonah Jodlowski and I am a rising senior attending Telluride High School. This week was my first week working in the Marine Science Research Building (MSRB) located on the UCSB campus in beautiful Santa Barbara, California. Before any of you worry, I was unharmed by both the 6.4 […]