{"id":276,"date":"2008-06-08T09:28:03","date_gmt":"2008-06-08T17:28:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.alexshapiro.org\/blog\/?p=276"},"modified":"2008-06-08T09:28:03","modified_gmt":"2008-06-08T17:28:03","slug":"portrait-of-the-blogger-as-a-young-scientist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.alexshapiro.org\/blog\/?p=276","title":{"rendered":"Portrait of the blogger as a young scientist"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.alexshapiro.org\/blog\/blogpix\/Alexphotog.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.alexshapiro.org\/RealAudio\/TrioforClAllegro.m3u\" style=\"text-decoration:none\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.alexshapiro.org\/blog\/blogpix\/mscblue.jpg\"\"alt=\"listen\"\/><font color=#4F4E81>&#8230;listen<\/font><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.alexshapiro.org\/TrioforClpg1s.html\" style=\"text-decoration:none\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.alexshapiro.org\/blog\/blogpix\/moregn.jpg\"\/><font color=#4F4E81>&#8230;about the music<\/font><\/a><\/p>\n<p><i><font color=#346513>Music for specimens.<\/font><\/i><\/p>\n<p>On Wednesday I spent a few hours at sea once again, on the marine science vessel <a href=\"http:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/fhl\/fac_RVCentennialSpecifics.html\" style=\"text-decoration:none\" target=\"_blank\"><b><font color= \"#4F4E81\">Centennial, <\/font><\/b><\/a> a significant tool for University of Washington&#8217;s Friday Harbor Laboratories. How I, a wannabe marine biologist and oceanographer, was so lucky as to end up living nearly walking distance from one of the world&#8217;s greatest research facilities, is beyond me. But here I am (in a couple of pix taken by my dear friend <a href=\"http:\/\/www.laurakoplewitz.com\/\" style=\"text-decoration:none\" target=\"_blank\"><b><font color= \"#4F4E81\">Laura<\/font><\/b><\/a>). The people who work and study at the Labs are a great bunch; warm hearted, curious, fun. Over the past year I&#8217;ve gotten involved with FHL&#8217;s wonderful <a href=\"http:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/fhlk12\/index.html\" style=\"text-decoration:none\" target=\"_blank\"><b><font color= \"#4F4E81\">K-12 Science Outreach Program, <\/font><\/b><\/a>and have also let peers know about their amazing <a href=\"http:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/fhl\/Whiteley\/index.html\" style=\"text-decoration:none\" target=\"_blank\"><b><font color= \"#4F4E81\">Whiteley Center for visiting scholars. <\/font><\/b><\/a><\/p>\n<p>We had a bunch of very sweet third-graders on board, and while I&#8217;m always tempted to use small humans as chum to attract the big sharks that would be really fun to study, I resisted the urge to toss any of these cute kids overboard. Instead, it was a delight to watch them enjoy the thrill of running their little hands through the muck and life forms brought up by the dredger from the bottom of the sea floor; about 30 fathoms at the point where we stopped. I get as much of a kick out of this as anyone. There&#8217;s an immediate, primal connection when one is holding bivalves, worms and crabs that only moments ago were oozing around in a far different world. My apologies to them all for bringing them momentarily into the light for our own edification.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.alexshapiro.org\/blog\/blogpix\/FHLdock.jpg\"\/><br \/>\nPart of the Labs, as we left the dock.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.alexshapiro.org\/blog\/blogpix\/Centennial.jpg\"\/><br \/>\nThe Centennial.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.alexshapiro.org\/blog\/blogpix\/dredger.jpg\"\/><br \/>\nThe dredger delivers its payload.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.alexshapiro.org\/blog\/blogpix\/specimens.jpg\"\/><br \/>\nMmmmmmm!<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.alexshapiro.org\/blog\/blogpix\/blueisles.jpg\"\/><br \/>\nYes, the sea really is this blue here.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.alexshapiro.org\/blog\/blogpix\/Alexbydoor.jpg\"\/><br \/>\nHappy as a clam. Or any mollusk, for that matter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-276","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-musings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alexshapiro.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alexshapiro.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alexshapiro.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alexshapiro.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alexshapiro.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=276"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.alexshapiro.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alexshapiro.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=276"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alexshapiro.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=276"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alexshapiro.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=276"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}