The prompt: can you describe your thesis in the top 1,000 most common words?
Near the big blue water body, there lives an animal with a hard house. They are like rocks, but live rocks. There used to be many live rocks near the big blue water body, but now there are few. People and animals that are in the big blue water body love to eat the live rocks. People love to be near the big blue water body and change the land. Sometimes this is bad for the live rocks. However, we know very little about the live rocks. We don't know how many there are, when they have babies, what the babies look like, how fast they grow, or how far they can move! This makes it hard to manage their numbers. Our study wants to understand the relationship between live rocks and their land. What is important for them to live? Also, we want to learn about how they live. When to they let go of babies into the water? How long does it take for them to become a big live rock? To do this, we find live rocks across the land where they are found. We find out how many there are and how big they are in those places. At one place, we catch live rocks and cut them open. This lets us find out when they have babies inside them during the year and how old they are. All of this helps us picture the possible dream of the live rocks. Can you imagine the land near the big blue water body covered in live rocks? Isn't it beautiful?! Want to attempt the challenge? Check out: splasho.com/upgoer5/
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This year WSN was in beautiful Ensenada, Mexico. Our lab group completed a whirlwind trip for the conference. Arriving on Thursday and departing on Sunday. Many hours of driving, a stop for coffee at Handlebar Coffee in Santa Barbara, and multiple driver changes - we made it there and back again! (There and back again, a biologists tale?) The Pismo project had 3 presentations this year!
Noel Clark, Marine Science Undergraduate, presented a poster on the age and growth of Pismo clams in California. Sara Park, Biology Undergraduate, shared an oral presentation on life history parameters in Pismo clams. Her work focuses on annual reproductive cycles and body condition. I presented on our statewide survey work, looking at habitat associations with clam presence, density and biomass across California. Everyone provided us with great feedback and encouragement at the conference! Thank you to all who helped make this project happen! Especially the Bill and Linda Frost Fund, which supported undergraduate research! |
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