{"id":2807,"date":"2019-05-28T01:11:10","date_gmt":"2019-05-28T01:11:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/gemmlab\/?p=2807"},"modified":"2019-05-28T01:11:10","modified_gmt":"2019-05-28T01:11:10","slug":"a-weekend-of-inspiration-in-marine-science-nwssmm-and-dr-sylvia-earle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/gemmlab\/2019\/05\/28\/a-weekend-of-inspiration-in-marine-science-nwssmm-and-dr-sylvia-earle\/","title":{"rendered":"A Weekend of Inspiration in Marine Science: NWSSMM and Dr. Sylvia Earle!"},"content":{"rendered":"

By Karen Lohman<\/a>, Masters Student in Wildlife Science, Cetacean Conservation and Genomics Lab, Oregon State University<\/strong><\/p>\n

My name is Karen Lohman, and I\u2019m a first-year student in Dr. Scott Baker\u2019s Cetacean Conservation and Genomics Lab<\/a> at OSU. Dr. Leigh Torres is serving on my committee and has asked me to contribute to the GEMM lab blog from time to time. For my master\u2019s project, I\u2019ll be applying population genetics and genomics techniques to better understand the degree of population mixing and breeding ground assignment of feeding humpback whales in the eastern North Pacific. In other words, I\u2019ll be trying to determine where the humpback whales off the U.S. West Coast are migrating from, and at what frequency.<\/p>\n

Earlier this month I joined the GEMM lab members in attending the Northwest Student Society of Marine Mammalogy Conference in Seattle. The GEMM lab members and I made the trip up to the University of Washington to present our work to our peers from across the Pacific Northwest. All five GEMM lab graduate students, plus GEMM lab intern Acacia Pepper, and myself gave talks presenting our research to our peers. I was able to present preliminary results on the population structure of feeding humpback whales across shared feeding habitat by multiple breeding groups in the eastern North Pacific using mitochondria DNA haplotype frequencies. In the end GEMM lab\u2019s Dawn Barlow took home the \u201cBest Oral Presentation\u201d prize. Way to go Dawn!<\/p>\n

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A few of the GEMM lab members and me presenting our research at the NWSSMM conference in May 2019 at the University of Washington.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

While conferences have a strong networking component, this one feels unique. \u00a0It is a chance to network with our peers, who are working through the same challenges in graduate school and will hopefully be our future research collaborators in marine mammal research when we finish our degrees. It\u2019s also one of the few groups of people that understand the challenges of studying marine mammals. Not every day is full of dolphins and rainbows; for me, it\u2019s mostly labwork or writing code to overcome small and\/or patchy sample size problems.<\/p>\n

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All of the CCGL and GEMM Lab members excited to hear Dr. Sylvia Earle’s presentation at Portland State University in May 2019 (from L to R: Karen L., Lisa H., Alexa K., Leila L., Dawn B., and Dom K.) . Photo Source: Alexa Kownacki<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

On the way back from Seattle we stopped to hear the one and only Dr. Sylvia Earle, talk in Portland. With 27 honorary doctorates and over 200 publications, Dr. Sylvia Earle<\/a> is a legend in marine science. Hearing a distinguished marine researcher talk about her journey in research and to present such an inspiring message of ocean advocacy was a great way to end our weekend away from normal grad school responsibilities. While the entirety of her talk was moving, one of her final comments really stood out. Near the end of her talk she called the audience to action by saying \u201cLook at your abilities and have confidence that you can and must make a difference. Do whatever you\u2019ve got.\u201d As a first-year graduate student trying to figure out my path forward in research and conservation, I couldn\u2019t think of better advice to end the weekend on.<\/p>\n

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