When I was five years old, I went on a family fishing trip to a rural river in the Middle of Nowhere, Wisconsin. We stayed here, and the owners and employees at Pine Grove became family. And then the next year I went back, and the year after that, and every year after and now I'm here. Sometime during all of these trips, I gaining an incredible appreciation and fascination of the water. Everything in it, around it, affected by it. Rivers, lakes, oceans, ponds, streams, whatever.
I was lucky enough to have such wonderful experiences growing up, and I am lucky enough now to be able to explore my interest in marine life my senior year. I'll be working at the OdySea Aquarium and looking at Coral. More specifically, I'll be recreating the effects of air pollution on the water in the ocean, and directly looking at how coral growth and recovery is effected. You can read more about my background and my proposal here.
I want to take a second to thank OdySea Aquarium for allowing me the opportunity to work at their facility, to thank my college counselor Megan Mitrovich for the work that she did to get the placement at the aquarium, and to thank my bio teacher Ryan Carey for helping me create a quality proposal. On a vaguely related note, I could totally write an Oscar acceptance speech.
I am excited and ready to start this project, and I hope you check in on me from time to time. I'll also use this blog to post whatever happens to be on my mind or what's going on in my life if I have space. So not only am I excited about this project, I'm excited about the backpacking trips I'm planning to Zion and Glacier National Park. Look them up, seriously, They're so pretty. And lastly, I will leave you with a .gif that I love.
