Stanford EPGY: Biology Studies

It was very exciting to get on a plane headed to California all by myself. Like most 15 year olds I had never done something like that without my parents by my side. When I got off the plane, the first thing I noticed was the temperature and the blue, blue sky. There are days in Ohio when there’s not a cloud in the sky, but the California sky did not have the smoggy, off-blue color that the Ohio sky does. I was kind of shy with the kids on the bus that took us from the airport to the Cowell House cluster. I didn’t want to start with a bad impression- being too snobby or perhaps not being snobby enough. But once I started talking to some kids, I realized that they weren’t too different from me, despite the fact that they came from across America and a couple were from China.

Stone Labs Field Report: Whirlygigs and Dragonflies

This is was written from Stone Labs on or about June 24, 2007.

Many weeks in

I have been disregarding this blog for so long because my first few trips to the Ohio State Wetlands were rather uneventful. Recently though, I was able to gain access into their hi-tech chemistry lab.
This past Wednesday I helped Li Zhang, assistant director of ORWRP, with an experiment measuring the amount of organic matter and elemental make-up of several dirt samples taken from around the wetlands. I was expecting another day full of nothing too exciting. Instead, I was entrusted with conducting an important experiment. The procedure:

First Day at the Wetlands

My highschool has an internship program where students go out into the community to learn about possible job oppurtunities and to give back to the community. During the school year I will be going to my internship site every wednesday for 5 hours. I chose the Olentangy River Wetland Research Park as my site. This past Thursday I went to the site early in the morning expecting to be introduced to the 1-hour survey of the Wetlands that is done every day. In this survey, the wetlands are tested for things like salt concentration, water temperature, DO, and pH. Instead I worked from 8 a.m- 1 p.m. on taking samples of peak biomass from random spots around the wetlands.

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