{"id":948,"date":"2020-03-10T18:08:51","date_gmt":"2020-03-10T18:08:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/ship\/?p=948"},"modified":"2020-03-10T18:08:51","modified_gmt":"2020-03-10T18:08:51","slug":"gabi-martinez-presents-at-association-for-the-sciences-of-limnology-and-oceanography-ocean-sciences-meeting-2020-blog-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/ship\/2020\/03\/10\/gabi-martinez-presents-at-association-for-the-sciences-of-limnology-and-oceanography-ocean-sciences-meeting-2020-blog-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Gabi Martinez Presents at Association for the Sciences of Limnology and Oceanography, Ocean Sciences Meeting 2020, Blog 2"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The ocean sciences meeting this year was\nlocated in San Diego, California. The meeting had roughly six thousand\nattendees and exhibitors, comprised of scientists, students at all levels, and\nscience enthusiasts. Throughout the week, I attended oral presentations,\nstandard poster sessions, and digital poster sessions. Many of the other\ninterns from my time last summer at Bigelow were in attendance. Donoven was the\nonly one who did a full oral presentation and he did very well. My other\nfriends completed standard poster sessions. In the poster hall there were over three\nthousand posters on display. Only one of my other interns, Cat Mahoney,\ncompleted the digital poster session with me. All of the other undergraduates\nwho presented at our session had very interesting projects. They were also\nhighly diverse and no two were very similar. <\/h2>\n\n\n\n

My Junior year fall, Rollins gave me the\nopportunity to go to the Duke Marine Lab for a \u201csemester abroad\u201d in North\nCarolina. It was an amazing opportunity where I met other students with\ninterests in marine biology. One of these students was D\u2019amy Steward and she\nhappened to be at the conference and presenting in the same digital session as\nI was. I was not aware of this before the conference and it was so wonderful to\nsee her again. It really showed me how widespread the ASLO conference is and\nhow many people actually attend. Oceanography and Limnology are very large\nfields but at the same time, they are a small world. Getting to meet other\nlike-minded scientists was a cool experience I would not have gotten if I was\nunable to attend. <\/h2>\n\n\n\n