2011 Summer in Savannah!

Thursday, September 1, 2011

Reflection.. At Smith

Already at Smith and it's amazing how much time flies. I remember just arriving at Savannah State early May 16 and now it's almost time for classes to begin. I learned a lot from the internship and I loved the wealth of knowledge that I gained from this internship. I loved all the moments I got to spend looking at marine organisms from ctenophores to dolphins and fishes.

I had to conquer some intense fears of presenting in front of a whole classroom full of people. My research was short but very important to me as it took me long hours and many revisions for my paper to be great. I thank all the faculty at Savannah State and Skidaway Institute for their patience with me! I hope to return someday =)

Sunday, June 12, 2011

Week Overview: Jalapeños outing, downtown, dolphin survey, & Skidaway

I will mush a weeks worth of stuff into one.

Saturday - June 4: Jalapeños Outing

Girls lol.

Tiffany, Dontrece, Ana

Ana and I! =D

Food was awesome.. definitely have to go back and get some more rice and beans.

Wed June 8th/ Thurs June 9th: Skidaway Normal Days

Tank of Random Catch with LaGina

Shrimp!

Shrimp #2

Skidaway Labs

Stuff Off the Docks

Shrimp up Close

Hishim posing

Jasmine checking out her spreader

Plates at hand

Part of the lab

the girls at work.

Sat. Jun 11th: What is done in between Dolphin Surveying

Laura and Sequoia

Rebecca and Carolyn (cheesy!)

Take #2 with Rebecca Looking

Self picture with Lance!

Lance resting while off effort

STING RAY IN ACTION

STING RAY!!

Later on....Downtown, Savannah on a Mission

Scenery

Elijah around the scenery

Jungle? Nope.. Savannah downtown (a park nearby)

How the streets look downtown

Water fountain of glory!

An open spaced park

This hose was painted purple!

This house was painted pink!

Pink!

This reminds me of the Disney "CARS" cartoon movie scenery

Walking the wrong WAY??? JK

Free isn't free painted on a side of a house

I found this funny!

Scared! Inside Planet 3 Piercing Place

Prep and concern

THE STICKY RECIEPT

We go to a Thai food restaurant (decent) and we get separate tabs in Sticky notes !!

UM... 12.79? Includes Tax =D Interesting stuff.

That was my week

Thursday, June 2, 2011

Trip to Charleston... Love!

I personally love videos. This is filled with them. I had to !!

An introduction about the program and the buildings.

The Specimen room. A room where specimens of animals from the 1960-present are stored. If other labs around the country need a certain specimen... you would contact this building for it. awesome stuff here.(dead animals? yes!)

Just 1/4 of a shelf.. There were rows upon rows... There is a set of escalators to view the ones on the high shelves

Large specimen box... Smells funkyyy, but they are large fishes.

A specimen of fish. IDK what it was.

Little bottles. Crabs

Little bottles of crabs

Of course I had to hold some of these... I'm curious.

Dr. E Banks holding a jar of starfish specimen.. They different from the ones you normally see in Savannah, GA

Crab jar.

Elijah making an EW face

Weird animals are cool to me.

Taryn holding a colorful (unknown to me) specie of animal

Octopus Jar

More Shelves

The guys in the back looking at a sample. This is the specimen room.

After the specimen room. We went to a lab where animals were shown to us =).

Explaining the difference between male and female blue crab. Female blue crabs have a punch to protect her babies from getting hurt (blue crabs either swim or drag themselves on the sand) WHY is blue crab so delicious? Because they are swimmers and their bodies (shells) are mostly tasty muscles.

VIDEO MARATHON OF CRABS =)

So I didn't know how to rotate my camera. There will be parts where the video goes vertical...Sorry.