Here is a picture of the area where my classes take place. we have been diving and collecting from areas right around here. The view at East point is killer.

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Scientific Diver

As of today, I am oxygen certified, CPR certified and a certifiable underwater diver!

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DNA extraction

We strapped on our rain boots and plodded out to the intertidal. After navigating over slippery sewaeeds, we collected two species of intertidal snails and some seaweeds. Back in the lab…wearing baby blue gloves we smashed snails with hammers and took a rice grain size of tissue and put it into our test tubes with [...]

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