On Monday and Tuesday of last week, the interns ventured to Seattle to learn more about careers in fish and wildlife beyond the Olympic Peninsula. On Monday they visited the University of Washington School of Aquatic and Fishery Sciences, where they were joined by the Students Saving Salmon group from Edmonds-Woodway High School. Both groups were welcomed to UW by the Students Explore Aquatic Sciences (SEAS) group, which creates outreach opportunities for youth to learn more about aquatic sciences. During the day they toured the campus, learned about wǝɫǝbʔaltxʷ (the longhouse gathering space on campus), and heard from Fisheries and Marine Biology advisers and faculty about what programs are available for students. They also visited the Schindler Lab, where they heard about decades of Lake Washington water quality monitoring efforts, the Wood Lab, where they learned about parasites that are found in oysters, and the COASST lab, where they learned about a developing marine mammal stranding monitoring program. SEAS then hosted a lesson about human impacts on salmon population trends, where the students learned how to apply scientific reasoning to real-world problems. During this session, Angelina visited the Sanders Prosthetic Science and Technology Lab to learn more about opportunities in BioEngineering at UW.
On Tuesday the interns ventured to the Seattle Aquarium and toured behind the scenes with Shawn Larson, who is the Curator of Conservation Research and conducts sea otter research out of Neah Bay. She showed them the tools, spaces, and people that keep the aquarium running and support all of their research outside the walls. They then explored the exhibits before heading to Ivar’s to lunch, and then getting on the ferry to head back home.
The rest of the week was spent hard at work in the office putting the finishing touches on their projects!
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