Julia's blog

These last two weeks have been incredibly busy. Last Tuesday a group of interns and myself went on a one day reasearch cruise with the oceanography camp to learn how to take water samples. Not only did we learn that, we also learned why bananas are not allowed on a boat (they attract monkeys). Thursday we continued with this project by extracting DNA and putting in a gel to set. We were supposed to see the results on Friday, but that never happened. The rest of the week I worked on a summary of everything we had done so far for Antonio, as well as researching tides.

My name is Julia, and I just started here as a high school intern. I will be a senior next year at Wilson High School in Portland. So far, CMOP is a wonderful place to work. My senior mentor in Antonio Baptista, and my frontline mentor is Pat. Up until now the other intern that I work with, Sierra, and I have been learning how to use MATLAB and have started comparing the data that comes in from the Saturn network to the models.