Adios Winter Break….

For having so much time off (over a month!) winter break sure did go by quickly. It was so nice spending time with family and friends and catching up on processing data for my capstone project. I have successfully finished weighing/measuring/recording/sorting/processing/whatever else needed to be done with all of the marine debris I collected for the fall mainland surveys. All winter break I’ve had about 18 trash bags in my house in the spare room, so I think my roommates are just as happy that I finished processing everything as I am.

Hopefully I can do this in the lab at school from now on. And now that that’s done with I can go out and collect some more in a few weeks after we get some more rain! Not going to lie, processing all the debris is a tedious process – but I am excited to see what happens after more surveys are done and the data is analyzed. The first week of school I plan on analyzing the data I have now to see if there are any trends with the types of debris according to location. Processing the trash I did notice some beaches had more of a certain type of debris than others, so it will be interesting to see what the numbers say. I also plan on finishing up looking for microfibers in the sand I collected during Week 1 as well.

School hasn’t even started yet but I am excited about starting my last semester and where things are going in terms of my marine debris project.

 

Here are some random photos highlighting my winter break.