This summer I have an internship through COSEE ie Center for Ocean Sciences Education Excellence as a part of their PRIME program ie Promoting Research Investigations in the Marine Environment. Officially it is:
COSEE Pacific Partnerships PRIME Internship Program for Community College Students. From their blog, "PRIME is an 8-week internship program for community college students
interested in gaining research skills and experience working with
scientists based at marine research stations in Oregon, Washington, and
Hawai'i." Maybe next year I will try for Hawai'i!
This year I am at Shannon Point Marine Center through WWU with Dr. Paul Dinnel working with the Olympia Oyster, the only oyster native to Washington. They were mostly wiped out between over-harvest, pollution, disease and an untimely cold snap. We are working primarily in Fidalgo Bay at the trestle as the primary restoration site in Washington. We will be looking at how far oysters planted at spat (juvenile) have naturally spread within the bay both directly around the trestle and around the bay in general. We will also look at temperature and salinity sensor data that we will recover from several sites that are being considered as additional restoration sites.
There are 2 COSEE interns as well as 8 REU (Research Opportunity for Undergrads) students, one AAUS (scientific diving) student, and a handful of graduate students doing research all living out here in the dorms this summer. It is a good group of people and pretty diverse. I've never lived in dorms or big shared housing before, it is interesting and so far so good.
One of the first days I took Alannah a student from Minnesota to the top of Mt Erie to take in the view as her home is so flat.
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