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10/7/20125Mike Schaddt showed me around the aquarium, he also gave me a lecture on what it means to be a marine biologist.
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10/14/20125Mike Schaddt introduced me to staff and other volunteers around the aquarium.
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11/4/20125I began my training with Chris Bautista who showed me how to properly clean, feed, and handle the animals.
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11/11/20125Chris sends me off with another volunteer where I gain hands on experience on how to care for the animals using the training from last week.
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11/18/20126I meet with Andres who was going out too teach a group of 8th graders from Southgate Middle School in East Los Angeles. We show them the saltmarsh a new area to me, the inner and outer beach, and the tidepools.
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11/25/20126Met with Andres again with the Southgate kids, took them out to identify variables in an experiment as well as how to use tools and count.
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12/2/20126Clean and cared for animals by myself with no need for assistance, cleaned a tank with bleach and sodium thiosulfate.
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12/9/20126Clean and cared for animals as usual. Did a plankton tow which involves towing a small net through a boat dock then spraying the net into a small pitcher that we used to examine small zooplankton under a microscope for the public.
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12/16/20126Clean and cared for animals. Asked for a research proposal today.
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12/23/20126After AM feeding I went to the library to look at research on the jelly blooms that had a massive amount of data that had to do with my experiment.
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12/30/20126AM feeding. Got my project approved. Was asked to come in on Monday to start.
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12/31/20123Started experiment, used a pipette to suck out polyps one by one until I had 75, then I got beach water and changed the acidity of it using a probe, chemistry, and 2M HCl. I then put the one polyp into one well on 3 trays all containing a different acidity of water, I then put them in a dark drawer because my research pointed out that polyps begin to strobilate when introduced to darkness.
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1/6/20136AM feeding. I checked up on my experiment and the data seems to be consistent with my hypothesis so far, but its much too soon to tell. PM feeding.
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1/27/20136Whale Fiesta Day a lot of public came over and learned a lot fromvarious booths. Cool blow up whale. Did normal rounds forfeeding and cleaning as well as a plankton tow.
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2/3/20136Plankton tow and crab hunting/ declawing along with normal rounds. Gave Angel Campos and her family a tour of the whole museum with info on most of the animals.
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2/17/20136Normal rounds and activities (feeding and cleaning)
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2/24/20136Normal rounds and activities (feeding and cleaning)
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3/3/20136Normal rounds and activities (feeding and cleaning)
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3/10/20136Normal rounds and activities (feeding and cleaning)
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3/17/201310Young Scientist Convention, presentations as well as normal activities.
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3/31/20136Normal rounds and activities (feeding and cleaning)
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4/7/20136Normal rounds and activities (feeding and cleaning)
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4/14/20136Jellyfish died. Normal rounds.
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4/21/20136Normal rounds and activities (feeding and cleaning)
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4/28/20136Normal rounds and activities (feeding and cleaning)
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5/5/20136Aquaitic Nursery Staff party and normal rounds and what not.
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5/12/20136Snorkelled for a rare bright green anenome for the aquarium.
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