{"id":7168,"date":"2013-08-01T13:27:26","date_gmt":"2013-08-01T21:27:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mlmlblog.wordpress.com\/?p=7168"},"modified":"2020-10-13T17:16:53","modified_gmt":"2020-10-14T00:16:53","slug":"a-scientists-summer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/student-life\/2013\/08\/01\/a-scientists-summer\/","title":{"rendered":"A Scientist’s Summer"},"content":{"rendered":"
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By Michelle Marraffini, <\/span>Invertebrate Zoology Lab<\/span><\/strong><\/h3>\n

It's that time of year again, summer.\u00a0 The glorious few months off from classes we graduate students have to catch up of research, work, and sometimes even fun things.\u00a0\u00a0 Me and a few of my fellow labmates took some time off from work this past few weeks to play hooky for a cause. We volunteered with the Monterey Bay Aquarium's Young Women in Science program to help middle school girls in this summer camp monitor the beach for sand crabs and learn how to boogie board.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The camp's aim is help empower young girls interested in science to be guardians of the ocean.\u00a0\u00a0 Many of these girls have never been swimming in the ocean before and we enjoyed showed the girls the fun of splashing in the surf.<\/p>\n

\"Invertebrate<\/a>
Invertebrate Lab student Melinda waiting for a wave.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

You may remember me talking about this event from last summer, but since it is such a wonderful program I had to post it again.\u00a0 This year even more women from MLML and MBARIs summer intern program came out to help local girls learn more about the ocean.\u00a0 We spent half of the day using the scientific method and sampling along a transect to look for sand crabs.\u00a0 The campers were encouraged to form hypotheses about where the crabs were living and use results to think about larger food webs and ecosystem processes.\u00a0\u00a0 After lunch and a safety lesson on currents and waves from the lifeguards, girls rushed towards the ocean with boogie boards in tow ready to conquer this new frontier.\u00a0 We ran in after them and helped them learn to catch a wave and dive under ones that were too big.<\/p>\n

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Lifeguard explains how to safely dive under a large wave to girls at YWS, they also learned about rip currents and water safety.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

This camp is a weeklong and the girls get to do some amazing activities like kayaking the Elkhorn Slough and playing with us in the ocean.\u00a0 Many of these girls might not otherwise get these experiences so the camp aims to bring them new knowledge of the ocean and coastal environments as well as making science approachable and fun.<\/p>\n

\"Pamela\"<\/a>
Our fearless leader Pamela, also an invertebrate lab student and MBA employee, keeping watch over the girls in the ocean.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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