{"id":5031,"date":"2011-10-30T20:36:42","date_gmt":"2011-10-31T04:36:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mlmlblog.wordpress.com\/?p=5031"},"modified":"2011-10-30T20:36:42","modified_gmt":"2011-10-31T04:36:42","slug":"a-very-science-halloween","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/student-life\/2011\/10\/30\/a-very-science-halloween\/","title":{"rendered":"A Very Science Halloween"},"content":{"rendered":"

By Michelle Marraffini Invertebrate Zoology<\/p>\n

Saturday night Elkhorn Yacht Club\u00a0graciously\u00a0hosted MLML’s annual Halloween party! \u00a0This year’s party included a great number of science themed\u00a0pumpkins\u00a0and costumes. \u00a0 Each lab is given a pumpkin the week prior to the party and asked to carve it as part of a contest. \u00a0The entries also included underwater pumpkins from the dive class. \u00a0I got the\u00a0opportunity\u00a0to tag along with the Scientific Dive class this past Friday and carve one of my own. \u00a0My dive partner Kristin and I struggled to hold the very\u00a0buoyant\u00a0pumpkin still at 20 feet depth, while we took turns using our dive knives to carve shapes into our pumpkin. \u00a0Can you guess what it is? \u00a0(Hint: we are both in the invertebrate zoology lab).<\/p>\n

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The Invertebrate Lab’s offical pumpkin, for the contest, was a carving of a cuttlefish (Photo below with one of our new students Catherine Drake). \u00a0The results from the contest have not yet been tallied but in my opinion it was the best (I may be a little biased in this area).\u00a0 I just heard the results are in…we did win the pumpkin carving contest!<\/p>\n

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Photo by: M. Marraffini<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The party also included costume contests for best costume, most scientific, best faculty costume, best group costume, funniest costume, and scariest costume. \u00a0 There was some stiff competition this year for most scientific including a costume of an electrophoresis gel (gel used view products from polymerase chain reaction used to amplify DNA), a whale fall costume complete with whale skeleton and invertebrates that live on or near the bones, the rocky intertidal with a limpet, barnacle and ochre seastar, a blue crab lifecycle, and a bacterial culturing experiment. \u00a0 Below is a picture (Photo by Diane Wyse Physical Oceanography Lab) of the invertebrate lab’s rocky intertidal group costume, while it looked pretty good and we did not win the group costume contest. There’s always next year. \u00a0Happy Halloween!<\/p>\n

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Photo by: Diane Wyse<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n


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