{"id":1607,"date":"2009-08-17T08:00:01","date_gmt":"2009-08-17T16:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mlmlblog.wordpress.com\/?p=1607"},"modified":"2009-08-17T08:00:01","modified_gmt":"2009-08-17T16:00:01","slug":"summer-at-sea-early-riser","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/student-life\/2009\/08\/17\/summer-at-sea-early-riser\/","title":{"rendered":"Summer at Sea: Early Riser"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Leaving<\/a>
Leaving Half Moon Bay before the sun for a day of fishing with the California Collaborative Fisheries Research Program (photo: E. Loury)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Erin<\/a>
Erin Loury<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

By Erin Loury<\/a>, Ichthyology Lab<\/p>\n

If you\u2019re not a good morning person, think carefully before considering any type of marine field work.\u00a0 Whether it\u2019s to catch a good low tide to sample an otherwise submerged tidepool, or to squeeze in as much fishing time on the water before the afternoon wind, it\u2019s not unusual to start a summer morning of field work at 4 a.m.\u00a0 I definitely gain a new respect for weather and tides when operating on nature\u2019s schedule \u2013 and maybe lose a bit in the beauty sleep department.
\nThere are other consequences: I start thinking about lunch around 9:30 a.m., and bed starts sounding awfully good at 8 p.m.\u00a0\u00a0 Although I often wish I had a crowbar to pry open my eyelids that early in the morning, the pre-dawn start can have its benefits too.\u00a0 Such as watching the sunrise light up the ocean.\u00a0\u00a0 Suddenly, the field work I was cursing not two hours before becomes the luckiest job the world \u2013 and I remember just why I wanted to do marine science in the first place.<\/p>\n

\"Sunrise<\/a>
Sunrise at the Channel Islands on a National Marine Fisheries survey (photo: Erin Loury)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

By Erin Loury, Ichthyology Lab If you\u2019re not a good morning person, think carefully before considering any type of marine field work.\u00a0 Whether it\u2019s to catch a good low tide to sample an otherwise submerged tidepool, or to squeeze in as much fishing time on the water before the afternoon wind, it\u2019s not unusual to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":291,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1607","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"MLML Student Life","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/student-life","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/student-life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1607","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/student-life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/student-life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/student-life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/291"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/student-life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1607"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/student-life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1607\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/student-life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1607"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/student-life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1607"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/student-life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1607"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}