{"id":1976,"date":"2010-02-18T11:58:35","date_gmt":"2010-02-18T19:58:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mlmlblog.wordpress.com\/?p=1976"},"modified":"2010-02-18T11:58:35","modified_gmt":"2010-02-18T19:58:35","slug":"the-olympics-marine-lab-style","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/student-life\/2010\/02\/18\/the-olympics-marine-lab-style\/","title":{"rendered":"The Olympics – Marine Lab Style"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The MLML Lab Olympics trophy \u2013 a coveted accolade for any marine scientist's resume! (photo: E. Loury)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

by Erin Loury<\/a>, Ichthyology Lab (and former MLML Olympic champ…)<\/p>\n

With the Winter Olympics well underway in Vancouver, I thought it was time to focus some attention on the lesser-known games of glory in the marine science world – that is, the legendary Lab Olympics at MLML.\u00a0 Once a year, the student body gathers together in a battle of skill, speed, and smarts to decide which lab is deserving of MLML gold.\u00a0 Here’s a look at some of the daring events:<\/p>\n

Science gear in action is a popular theme for variations on the quick-change relay:<\/p>\n

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The scuba gear relay - strip the gear of your teammate, put it on yourself, and waddle your way to victory! (photo: E. Loury)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Combining frisbee and accuracy with a science flair is the true essence of grad school:<\/p>\n

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The tallow bin toss: bag that (picture of a) dead skate or sea lion carcass in the tallow bin to snag the gold! (photo: E. Loury)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

And any true marine lab event would require some brain power as well:<\/p>\n

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The unscrambler: break water balloons and rearrange the words inside to spell a win! (photo: E. Loury)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

For all our years of training, we have yet to take our competition to the regional level.\u00a0 Any labs out there willing to challenge?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

by Erin Loury, Ichthyology Lab (and former MLML Olympic champ…) With the Winter Olympics well underway in Vancouver, I thought it was time to focus some attention on the lesser-known games of glory in the marine science world – that is, the legendary Lab Olympics at MLML.\u00a0 Once a year, the student body gathers together […]<\/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-1976","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\/1976","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=1976"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/student-life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1976\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/student-life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1976"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/student-life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1976"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/student-life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1976"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}