Hi Everyone!!
Monday was my first day of work here at WHOI (Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution). Let me just say that Woods Hole is AMAZING! It’s so beautiful, the weather is perfect (most of the time… there’s a storm coming in now and the power keeps going out). But here is a picture from Monday night.
After work on Monday, two friends and I picked up dinner and hung out on the beach until about 8pm. This is a photo of the sunset as we were walking home.
Also, there is this family of ducks that I’ve been drinking coffee with every morning before work, a momma duck and 6 or 7 little ducklings. They get fed all the time, so they come right up to you and expect food.
Papa duck was looking for some food, but I didn’t have anything, so he figured that he would see if my toes tasted alright. I’ve been remembering to bring bread now.
I’m working on ageing my otoliths in Joel Llopiz’s lab. His work focuses on larval fish, and he has 2 undergrads (Sara and Justin), a post-grad (Julie), and a post-doc (Andy) working on various projects with him.
This is my lab space! Otoliths on otoliths on otoliths.
For the foreseeable future, I’ll be sorting out individual otoliths to age from as many samples as possible from each year (the 04-05 season through the 10-11 season).
This is what I got through yesterday…
The sorted samples
And this is what I have left to do (each stack is about 15 high).
So… I have a little bit of work ahead of me before I can start actually reading the otoliths, but it’ll be worth it! I’m hoping to get some really cool data from this! 🙂
I hope that everyone’s summer is going well, and I’ll keep y’all updated on this end!
-Mimi
Mimi at her lab bench (photo inserted by Prof. K. )