At the ASLO, Association for the Sciences of Limnology and
Oceanography, Ocean Sciences Meeting 2020, I took part in the undergraduate
eLighting presentation. This means that I created a digital poster (
osm2020-agu.ipostersessions.com/Default.aspx?s=C3-D3-71-B7-18-D1-32-05-34-14-6C-5F-06-9A-64-A0
) that shares similarities to a regular poster except that it can have YouTube
videos and more space for pictures. My poster was on my research: Gulf of Maine
Temperature-Salinity Curves from the Early 1900s (Henry Bigelow) Compared to
the Present (Gulf of Maine North Atlantic Time Series) that I had completed
this past summer at my Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) internship
at Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences. My project was completed with help from
senior research scientist Dr. Barney Balch at Bigelow. My project entailed
taking temperature and salinity data from the scientist Henry Bigelow, from the
years 1912-1915, and comparing it to data taken from Henry Mission One from
Gulf of Maine North Atlantic Time Series (GNATS), which occurred in 2008. GNATS
data is actually from an autonomous glider named Henry. After examining the
data, I stratified the data by latitude, longitude, and time of year to have a
more accurate comparison of the data. Then I made Temperature-salinity plots
using excel. The digital poster session started out with all people taking part
in a short three-minute presentation to pitch our poster relevance and
findings. After that we all stood near our posters and answered any questions
from people who came by and had questions. It was an incredibly fulfilling
experience to talk to a wide variety of scientists about the project I had
completed.
