This is my photo essay, photos taken of my workspace, building, data sheets, annotated scientific literatures, fish/shark tags, labs, squid beaks found in swordfish and beautiful views of La Jolla shore cove. Each caption of the photo will give a very brief description of whats in the picture and whats significant about it.
Image 1: Library that I worked in most of the time, has hundreds of books of Fish and Marine mammals conservation, species introduction and all types of interesting topics.
Image 2: Images representing the similarities in Sardines and Anchovies from eggs to juveniles to full grown adults.
Image 3: A few lab results , the plates are squid beaks collected that could be from Swordfish stomachs or shark stomachs.
Image 4: More Detailed picture of some of the books in the library. You can see a few of the titles of the books, "Diseases of Fishes", "Fish Medicine", "Fish Immunology".
Image 5: These are diagrams of the migration of Mako, Blue and Thresher Sharks. The interesting thing about this diagram is the line in which these sharks are migrating are significantly straight, more so in the thresher shark. That is a project my mentor is currently working on, is trying to understand why and where they are going and why is it so specific. Then the last diagram is a chart showing when in the day these sharks are coming to open waters then diving down deep.
Image 6: These are spaghetti tags that they use to tag fishes and sharks to see the migration of fish.
Image 7: A view of La Jolla Shores Cove from the library that I work in.
Image 8: I took this picture of a hanging Swordfish to remember that on the second day I got the chance to do a swordfish stomach dissection in which I picked out Otolith (Fish bones found in the ear), Fish Skeletons, Parasites (worm like), Squid beaks and other food consumed flesh.
Image 9: Giant fish hanging on the wall going down the stairs, caught by a team of fisherman at NOAA
Image 10: Closer look at the squid beaks picked out from a stomach of some sort.
Image 11: Image of the lab that I worked it while doing the dissection.
Image 12: Random lab I came across.
Image 13: Early morning overcast
Image 14: Scientific magazines in the library covering a variety of nature topics.
Image 15: Great view just from walking down the stairs. DONT take the beauty of nature for granted.
Image 16: Sea lions photographed I believe at La Jolla Shores.
Image 17: Peaceful photography work while walking down the halls of the Science Center.
Image 18-20: Screenshot of 22/74 collected results from the Consumer Survey.
Image 1: Library that I worked in most of the time, has hundreds of books of Fish and Marine mammals conservation, species introduction and all types of interesting topics.
Image 2: Images representing the similarities in Sardines and Anchovies from eggs to juveniles to full grown adults.
Image 3: A few lab results , the plates are squid beaks collected that could be from Swordfish stomachs or shark stomachs.
Image 4: More Detailed picture of some of the books in the library. You can see a few of the titles of the books, "Diseases of Fishes", "Fish Medicine", "Fish Immunology".
Image 5: These are diagrams of the migration of Mako, Blue and Thresher Sharks. The interesting thing about this diagram is the line in which these sharks are migrating are significantly straight, more so in the thresher shark. That is a project my mentor is currently working on, is trying to understand why and where they are going and why is it so specific. Then the last diagram is a chart showing when in the day these sharks are coming to open waters then diving down deep.
Image 6: These are spaghetti tags that they use to tag fishes and sharks to see the migration of fish.
Image 7: A view of La Jolla Shores Cove from the library that I work in.
Image 8: I took this picture of a hanging Swordfish to remember that on the second day I got the chance to do a swordfish stomach dissection in which I picked out Otolith (Fish bones found in the ear), Fish Skeletons, Parasites (worm like), Squid beaks and other food consumed flesh.
Image 9: Giant fish hanging on the wall going down the stairs, caught by a team of fisherman at NOAA
Image 10: Closer look at the squid beaks picked out from a stomach of some sort.
Image 11: Image of the lab that I worked it while doing the dissection.
Image 12: Random lab I came across.
Image 13: Early morning overcast
Image 14: Scientific magazines in the library covering a variety of nature topics.
Image 15: Great view just from walking down the stairs. DONT take the beauty of nature for granted.
Image 16: Sea lions photographed I believe at La Jolla Shores.
Image 17: Peaceful photography work while walking down the halls of the Science Center.
Image 18-20: Screenshot of 22/74 collected results from the Consumer Survey.
Link to a couple of the final products: Consumer Survey & Retail Survey
https://surveyplanet.com/574dd50a1d4404c559a470e0
https://surveyplanet.com/57505beeb77544ab467914f5
Photos of the product: Graphs, Facebook Page, Success in R
To be posted
A description why the project was important
This project is meant to help consumers make wise choices when deciding what type of fish to buy. This projects outcome will continue to be useful even after my internship is up, having consumer be able to check the Facebook page that we will have made will give access to consumers about how to recognize the difference between safe sustainable food rather then just seafood with no sustainable certificates.
A description of the process you went through to complete the project
→Construed Literature:
First week mainly consisted of me getting to know the building, co-workers and reading/annotating scientific journals,papers and articles on problems within fishing and how to conserve the fish. A few things I learned from them was that overfishing is easily covered up by relabeling the fish as another species that isn't endangered.
→Questions of Interest:
After getting a solid background of the project and getting caught up to date, I started brainstorming questions of interest that I wanted participants to answer, both consumers and retailers. Fortunately I got a big chunk of great data from the consumer survey, but keep in mind it is bias due to most participants work at NOAA so have previous experience with conservation and sustainability.
→Designed Surveys:
Consumer Survey: https://surveyplanet.com/574dd50a1d4404c559a470e0
Retail Survey: https://surveyplanet.com/57505beeb77544ab467914f5
→Experts Critique
After creating the surveys I had co-workers throughout NOAA that have had previous expierence with public outreach but specifuly through surveys, look and crtique the questions,format, tone and clarity of the questions.
→Experiment
Then after getting it revised, I expieremented the survey on a few people again co-workers, looking for the length in time of the survey until completeness and again clarity of the questions.
→Distributed
Next I started sending out the emails. I made an effort to send a mass email out to all students in my high school trying to get students and parents to take the survey but there was a complication within that. Then the other participants were workers at NOAA/people my mentor had in mind to take the survey.
→Analyzed Results in R
After we collected all of our data we inserted it into the coding software called R, learning the basics of R was a little overwhelming at first even though it started becoming easier and understandable when I started doing the coding hands on. After we inserted the data, I looked through trying to find relationships that I wanted to connect and compare. Then started using those relationships in creating graphs. Spending an entire day learning R is beneficial not only to this project but also to a developed skill I will have in the future for possible careers and future college assignments.
→Produced Graphs
The relationships within the data that I compared was the following:
Cities Median Income to importance of Seafood (#1)Environmental Impacts(#2)Locally Caught(#3)Health(#4)Personal Taste(#5)Affordability(#6)Wild vs Farmed(#7). So with just that data we already had 7 graphs that are significantly important and that was just from two category of data out of the "30" different columns in the spreadsheet. We created multiple other graphs that will be shown on this page soon that also show an interesting conclusion.
The presentation slides from on-site POL (if you had slides).
To be posted
A description why the project was important
This project is meant to help consumers make wise choices when deciding what type of fish to buy. This projects outcome will continue to be useful even after my internship is up, having consumer be able to check the Facebook page that we will have made will give access to consumers about how to recognize the difference between safe sustainable food rather then just seafood with no sustainable certificates.
A description of the process you went through to complete the project
→Construed Literature:
First week mainly consisted of me getting to know the building, co-workers and reading/annotating scientific journals,papers and articles on problems within fishing and how to conserve the fish. A few things I learned from them was that overfishing is easily covered up by relabeling the fish as another species that isn't endangered.
→Questions of Interest:
After getting a solid background of the project and getting caught up to date, I started brainstorming questions of interest that I wanted participants to answer, both consumers and retailers. Fortunately I got a big chunk of great data from the consumer survey, but keep in mind it is bias due to most participants work at NOAA so have previous experience with conservation and sustainability.
→Designed Surveys:
Consumer Survey: https://surveyplanet.com/574dd50a1d4404c559a470e0
Retail Survey: https://surveyplanet.com/57505beeb77544ab467914f5
→Experts Critique
After creating the surveys I had co-workers throughout NOAA that have had previous expierence with public outreach but specifuly through surveys, look and crtique the questions,format, tone and clarity of the questions.
→Experiment
Then after getting it revised, I expieremented the survey on a few people again co-workers, looking for the length in time of the survey until completeness and again clarity of the questions.
→Distributed
Next I started sending out the emails. I made an effort to send a mass email out to all students in my high school trying to get students and parents to take the survey but there was a complication within that. Then the other participants were workers at NOAA/people my mentor had in mind to take the survey.
→Analyzed Results in R
After we collected all of our data we inserted it into the coding software called R, learning the basics of R was a little overwhelming at first even though it started becoming easier and understandable when I started doing the coding hands on. After we inserted the data, I looked through trying to find relationships that I wanted to connect and compare. Then started using those relationships in creating graphs. Spending an entire day learning R is beneficial not only to this project but also to a developed skill I will have in the future for possible careers and future college assignments.
→Produced Graphs
The relationships within the data that I compared was the following:
Cities Median Income to importance of Seafood (#1)Environmental Impacts(#2)Locally Caught(#3)Health(#4)Personal Taste(#5)Affordability(#6)Wild vs Farmed(#7). So with just that data we already had 7 graphs that are significantly important and that was just from two category of data out of the "30" different columns in the spreadsheet. We created multiple other graphs that will be shown on this page soon that also show an interesting conclusion.
The presentation slides from on-site POL (if you had slides).
http://prezi.com/utw9ocjkogwd/?utm_campaign=share&utm_medium=copy