August 6, 2022 | It was a great last week out here at the Baruch Marine Laboratory! It’s a bit surreal now that it’s actually my last week, but it’s been yet another really productive one. On Monday morning, Isabel and I went out into the marsh and collected the crab pitfall traps for the last time. Although I’ve […]

July 30, 2022 | It was another successful week out here at Baruch!  Monday was definitely the busiest day of the week for me. Levi, a Ph.D. student here at the lab had asked me a while back about potentially helping him with some of his dissertation fieldwork, and of course, I jumped on the opportunity. His dissertation focuses […]

July 23, 2022 | To start off the week, I spent all of Monday and Tuesday out on the water conducting the monthly otter trawls in Winyah Bay. After each trawl, we sorted and measured every individual we caught which was really interesting. On Monday, we ended up catching a sturgeon, which is really rare to see in our […]

July 17, 2022 | It’s crazy to think that my time here is coming closer and closer to an end. It feels like it was just last week that I moved in and started working at the lab, but now I only have 2 or so weeks left! This week specifically has been all about starting the preliminary white […]

July 9, 2022 | This week flew by! Because of the Fourth of July, we didn’t come back to work until Tuesday, which meant I spent most of the weekend on the beach (or at least attempted to). Like last week, storms have been popping up left and right almost every day, making it hard to get outside over […]

July 2, 2022 | Although it rained almost every day, it was another great week out here at Baruch! On Monday afternoon, Isabel, Willa, and I went out in the field with Bruce to help conduct a zooplankton cruise in the creeks of the estuary. The purpose of these samplings was to, at specific creek sites, cast very fine […]

June 26, 2022 | With the temperatures in Georgetown above 95 degrees, it was easily the hottest week since I’ve been here. For the first couple of days, I spent quite a bit of my time working in the seawater lab on the brown shrimp experiment, which was to be expected. Because our experimental period is well underway, I […]

June 18, 2022 | This past week has been quite a roller coaster ride for our brown shrimp experiment. Over the past couple of weeks, Matt, Robert, Willa, and I have been preparing the seawater lab for our shrimp experiment, and on Friday we officially started! Initially, it was our intention to start our 15-day experiment earlier in the […]

June 11, 2022 | After an unorthodox second week, it felt great to return to the lab and really get back into the swing of things. I started off the week by helping out with some fieldwork out in Winyah Bay, where we spent the majority of the day trawling four different sites. After each trawl, we identified and […]

June 4, 2022 | This week has been quite a bit different compared to last week. Because of some complications with Covid-19 amongst the lab, I ended up having to work remotely for the majority of the week. On occasion, Willa (an intern from Vermont who I’ll be working with quite a bit) and I went to the lab […]