Week 9:
Finishing at Mayo
August 6, 2022 | Looking back at my first week at Mayo, I am in awe at how differently I feel about the experience. I went from nervous, uncertain, and shy to looking forward to going into the lab every day, confidence in the projects I worked on, more confident in my career trajectory, and a gain of great […]
Week 11:
Saying Goodbye
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 […]
Week 10:
Forever a Turtle Tracker
July 30, 2022 | It was an amazing and wild final week working at the Saint Louis Zoo Institute for Conservation Medicine! We started to work on Monday preparing supplies for next round of microbiome sampling. We created labels for the 195 cryotubes used to hold swab samples and pipetted autoclaved molecular biology grade water into a sterile tubes. […]
Week 10:
One Last Week
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 […]
Week 8:
A Mini Summary
July 30, 2022 | The internship may be closing next week, but there was definitely no shortage of work to do this week. If I had sum up this week in a cute little package, it would be that this week was a review of all previous seven weeks put together, compiling all the tasks that we have worked […]
Week 8:
Blast From the Past
July 30, 2022 | Happy Week 8! This past week, everyone learned so much, especially at journal club. The topic was electroencephalograms (or EEG for short)! A German psychiatrist named Hans Berger is credited with the invention of the EEG. Dr. St. Louis shared that in the early days of the EEG, it was used to assess strokes and […]
Week 8:
Wondrous Adventure
July 29, 2022 | Yes, indeed, I would categorize my time in Chicago as an adventure. I learned and experienced a lot during these eight weeks, enjoying myself while I was at it. Getting to work at Amazing Edibles was a treat partially because it was my first work experience. I know I have gained an edge over those […]
Week 9:
Week on the Water
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 […]
Week 7:
The Little Details
July 23, 2022 | If I had to describe a cute little theme for this week, paying attention to the little details would probably be what I chose. We did a lot of the same things I have talked about before (scoring and charting) but in slightly different ways that allowed me to gain a broader experience in this […]
Week 9:
Raccoon Radio
July 23, 2022 | It was another amazing week working at the Saint Louis Zoo Institute for Conservation Medicine! This week we started by tracking all of the study turtles in Forest Park. We were able to locate all eight of the study turtles and record their location using GPS. Two of the Forest Park turtles, Ainoa and Kennedy, […]