Today I received a great letter in the mail from Southern California Academy of Sciences letting me know that my presentation at the annual meeting one the “best student presentation” award. I am honored and excited to continue to share my…
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Went out to Anacapa Island this weekend to finish up my advanced open water certification with Ventura Dive. Next stop scientific dive school in Long beach!
This last week we tried some different solutions for dissolving crab tissue and shells so that we might “float” our plastics out to save time when looking for plastics. We are tweaking the methods used in the Claessens et al 2013…
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Thru my WRPI/USDA grant I will be testing fresh water sources for microplastics, that flow to the ocean. Ventura River, Perkins Estuary, Santa Clara River and Calleguas Creek will be the 4 main water sheds for testing at the river…
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This weekend I finished my Open Water Dive certification with a couple friends. We are all going to get our AAUS Scientific Dive done this June to be ready for underwater research.
Sunday March 20th my brother and I took all of my nieces and nephews out to Ventura Point to work on the Ventura Surfrider Dune restoration project. The learned about Ecosystem based management of the point and the native and non-native…
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Today I finished processing the 20th sample population of sand crabs and put together a small graph to share. The sample sites are listed from North to South along the California coast. Each bar represents a percentage of the sample…
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Spoke with Monika Lynn Krach from the LiMPETS|Greater Farallones National Marine Sanctuary to collaborate in Sand crab collection as well as future student education. Monika runs the program for kids learning science through intertidal and sandy beach surveys and has collected more…
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In collaboration with the Western Snowy plover nest monitors along Ormond, Hollywood, and other State Beaches in Ventura, we will be collecting and testing fecal samples for plastic pollutants. As well,with the National Park Service project of the Re-introduction of…
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The local Ventura Surfrider has invited us to share our research project as it falls in line with the “Rise Above Plastics” campaign. Tuesday, February 2nd at Patagonia Headquarters in Ventura Dr. Clare Steele, Michaela Miller and I will be presenting our research projects…
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