Here are a few choice videos and a podcast for your viewing/listening pleasure!
Friday, March 21, 2008
Monday, March 17, 2008
Well this was a quite busy week, but i did manage to get some stuff done for the REU. after taking a trip home to Vancouver, we went to my mom's work (she is a 3rd grade teacher) where all manner of cool fish-science is going on. Below is a video that i took of her 'salmon in the classroom' program as the Coho fry were being fed. this is an amazing program that has direct relation to our Near shore work, what with reintroduction of class- raised salmon into the environment. maybe we will see some of these guys in a year or so?
This is footage that may be seen in our Vid Cast in the next week- got to see how humorous i can make it in truth :D. Nearly the end of the quarter all woot!
This is footage that may be seen in our Vid Cast in the next week- got to see how humorous i can make it in truth :D. Nearly the end of the quarter all woot!
Sunday, March 2, 2008
Teh art off straying awwake and other thoughtts
If there is one thing that i have learned about school it the art of staying awake. It is currently 11:30 pm and i am just getting down to some homework that is burning in the back of my conscience. The great tragedy is that Dr. Pepper can only take me so far, and so one must know how to extend 12 oz of caffeine and sugar into 3 or four hours of solid homework time.
The key is to find something that fulfills both the necessary irrelevance of the late night insomniac, commonly known as 'youtube' browsing, with the completely important homework that must be done. The result is the rough draft of our REU video cast, that will be viewed tomorrow during our class.
On another note, the PERS conference that we recently attended was quite awesome in all respects (aside from that one presentation where i nearly fell asleep!). My personal favorite parts were when i first arrived in Newport and checked into the hotel (witch was awesome) and got to see the long mist enshrouded beaches of the Oregon coast. It is hard to describe the sheer unbridled joy of walking on such an expanse of beach as the one featured below after spending some 3 hours in the car. But it certifiably kicked off the conference on a positive note. My second favorite part was having the run of the Oregon Coast Aquarium for our grand feast, and if you have yet to go to this aquarium, it is quite breathtakingly awesome!
The conference itself was extremely interesting and useful; hobnobbing with interesting professionals in the marine/estuarine field, and getting to see the cutting edge of research, just like ours. In the end it was extremely gratifying to have so many people interested in our work, and to have it received so warmly (in all but one case, arrrrrr). I would recommended going to a science conference to anyone who gets the chance, in fact, go to as many as you can!
The key is to find something that fulfills both the necessary irrelevance of the late night insomniac, commonly known as 'youtube' browsing, with the completely important homework that must be done. The result is the rough draft of our REU video cast, that will be viewed tomorrow during our class.
On another note, the PERS conference that we recently attended was quite awesome in all respects (aside from that one presentation where i nearly fell asleep!). My personal favorite parts were when i first arrived in Newport and checked into the hotel (witch was awesome) and got to see the long mist enshrouded beaches of the Oregon coast. It is hard to describe the sheer unbridled joy of walking on such an expanse of beach as the one featured below after spending some 3 hours in the car. But it certifiably kicked off the conference on a positive note. My second favorite part was having the run of the Oregon Coast Aquarium for our grand feast, and if you have yet to go to this aquarium, it is quite breathtakingly awesome!
The conference itself was extremely interesting and useful; hobnobbing with interesting professionals in the marine/estuarine field, and getting to see the cutting edge of research, just like ours. In the end it was extremely gratifying to have so many people interested in our work, and to have it received so warmly (in all but one case, arrrrrr). I would recommended going to a science conference to anyone who gets the chance, in fact, go to as many as you can!
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