{"id":5750,"date":"2012-05-17T12:14:46","date_gmt":"2012-05-17T20:14:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mlmlblog.wordpress.com\/?p=5750"},"modified":"2021-01-01T20:26:47","modified_gmt":"2021-01-02T04:26:47","slug":"being-resourceful-the-mlml-grad-student-way","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/student-life\/2012\/05\/17\/being-resourceful-the-mlml-grad-student-way\/","title":{"rendered":"Being Resourceful, the MLML Grad Student Way"},"content":{"rendered":"
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By Catherine Drake, Invertebrate Zoology Lab<\/a><\/h3>\n

Sometimes when sampling, you have to be resourceful.\u00a0 Not everything will go according to plan (an instrument might break or a sampling method may not work), which is why problem solving is a great skill for any scientist to have.\u00a0 Such mishaps can even be humorous, as I found with my trip to Catalina Island with the Biological Oceanography lab two weeks ago.<\/p>\n

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The city of Avalon on beautiful Catalina Island.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

We set out for Catalina Island in the early morning of Sunday, May 6th<\/sup> to meet the TS Golden Bear<\/em> as it traveled around the island on its way southward.\u00a0 Two of our crew boarded a small boat and made their out to the ship, while the rest of us explored the beautiful island.\u00a0 While on the ship, the others worked on the treatment of the ship\u2019s ballast water, took samples, and brought them back to the island.\u00a0 Then, it was time for us to start our zooplankton counts.<\/p>\n

The issue we faced was that we had no facility to conduct out counts in, so we had to improvise.\u00a0 Time for us to put our problem solving caps on!\u00a0 We went into the hotel room and started to stare at all the objects\u2014furniture, cabinets, shelves, etc.\u2014to figure out how we could setup our counting stations.\u00a0 Our final configurations worked like a charm!\u00a0 My setup comprised of an ironing board, a wicker chair, and a microscope.\u00a0 And although the stations weren\u2019t conventional, we were still able to get the data, and had fun in the process.<\/p>\n

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My microscope setup for my zooplankton counts.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

By Catherine Drake, Invertebrate Zoology Lab Sometimes when sampling, you have to be resourceful.\u00a0 Not everything will go according to plan (an instrument might break or a sampling method may not work), which is why problem solving is a great skill for any scientist to have.\u00a0 Such mishaps can even be humorous, as I found […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":291,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[59],"class_list":["post-5750","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-drop-inblog","tag-biological-oceanography-lab"],"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\/5750","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=5750"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/student-life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5750\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21184,"href":"https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/student-life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5750\/revisions\/21184"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/student-life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5750"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/student-life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5750"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/student-life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5750"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}