Blog 23: 2014 Interview

1. Yesenia Martin
2.She wants to do something with business/sales, because that's what her father does and it interests her.
3. She'll work with her dad for her 10 hour summer mentorship.
4. In the 2-Hour presentations,she wants to see ideas that could possibly help her with her senior project, and information on varying subjects.
5. She asked me if her choice in studying business/sales had to be specified towards a single type of business, and I told her most likely, because studying business is a general area.

Blog 23: 3 Column Chart

3 Column Chart

Feeding My Octopus!

So, I decided to share my experiences with feeding my two-spotted octopus at the Cabrillo Marine Aquarium.

This is Hercules, the octopus. In this picture, he's eating a pretty big shore crab that was about 6 inches in diameter. The crab was a sad opponent for this Octopus Bimaculoides.

If you look close enough, you can see the legs of the crab... inside the octopus' mouth.

Blog 21: Independent Component 2

Literal

• I, Eric Reynolds, affirm that I have completed my independent component which represents 30 hours of work.
• The Cabrillo Marine Aquarium has allowed me to continue to volunteer, and has me doing a variety of things that increase my knowledge of marine biology.
• Log (incomplete)
• I completed an extra 45 hours of mentorship with the CMA. 

Interpretive

• I spent a majority of my hours feeding and taking care of the octopus. Ever since I started volunteering at CMA, I immediately fell in love with the octopus. Feeding the octopus takes about 20 minutes for each octopus, and there are a total of 10. I also go out into the rocks and catch crabs to feed the octopus. This takes about 45 minutes.
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Applied

• The component helped my support my answer of monitoring the levels of pollution more precisely, because all the time I spent out on the rocks, I noticed a lot of pollution going into the water from sea-doos, boats, and people just littering. I feel like if there were people out on the rocks to regulate this type of pollution, we could increase the health of the boat launch water.

Blog 20: Three Column Chart

3 Column Chart

Blog 19: Senior Project and ESLRs

1. I think I have excelled the most in the "Effective Learner" ESLR.
2. One of the subsets for "Effective Learner" is "expresses personal creativity". At the aquarium I volunteer at, I'm always trying to find out different ways to help the aquarium, or introduce something new. A while ago, I conducted a plankton-tow for science fair, and I found a mysterious hydromedusa in my water. The aquarists hadn't seen anything like it before and told me that I could possibly raise it. I like to explore the beach on my own to see if I can find anything interesting, and in the past week, Elijah and I have managed to save the aquariums wolf eel population. We were collecting crabs for the octopus, and I was being curious and discovered a colony of pregnant ghost shrimp, ideal food for the wolf eel eggs. The aquarium was very thankful for what we had done, and I felt proud of myself for saving the wolf eels.
3. This is a picture of a sea hare that I found while exploring the tide pools. 

Blog 18: 2-Hour Meeting Answer 3

1. EQ- How can scientists effectively reduce the anthropogenic effects dealt to the ocean?
2. To reduce the anthropogenic activity being dealt to the ocean, the government needs to create better legislation on boating and dumping regulations.
3. According to Scripps Institute of Oceanography, anthropogenic activity has caused a huge increase in salinity levels, which is very important when it comes to the circulation of water.
4. Insidescience.org
5. I plan on studying the other types of effects that we're having on the ocean, and seeing if there is any regulation against them.