{"id":603,"date":"2011-01-13T11:16:47","date_gmt":"2011-01-13T18:16:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.ups.edu\/studentlife\/?p=603"},"modified":"2011-01-13T11:16:47","modified_gmt":"2011-01-13T18:16:47","slug":"surprises-and-disappointments-learning-to-predict-the-weather","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/studentlife\/2011\/01\/13\/surprises-and-disappointments-learning-to-predict-the-weather\/","title":{"rendered":"Surprises and Disappointments: Learning to predict the weather"},"content":{"rendered":"

I am in my second week at the Sea Education Association campus in\u00a0Massachusetts. I still haven’t figure out how to spell Massachusetts without help from the autocorrect. It’s really about where you chose to apply yourself.<\/p>\n

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The Madden Center on the Sea Education Association Campus. And a snowperson. <\/p><\/div>\n

This week’s update is going to be a series of Surprises and Disappointments, but in the reverse order to end on a more positive note.<\/p>\n

Disappointment: I was told that an impressive nor’easter blizzard was going to hit Woods Hole and cancel classes today. I was finally ready to see what a Massachusetts winter could do. I was sorely disappointed with only 2.5 cm of slush fell and I still had to wake up early.<\/p>\n

Surprise: Turns out I was glad to go to class despite the “storm” because it was Weather Day! As the gale force winds and snain (snow-rain) blasted the classroom windows, we were looking at\u00a0satellite\u00a0images of the low pressure system sweeping across campus. Now I can tell you about the isobars, pressure gradients, and Coriolis effect that predicted the nor’easter and make predictions of my own. Perhaps this will prevent future weather Disappointments.<\/p>\n

Disappointment: Research plans. I was planning to do a research project on Atlantic jellyfish while at sea, but this plan was\u00a0kiboshed. Instead, I will work with neustonic organisms like the Portuguese man o’ war (Physalia physalis, <\/em><\/strong>not a real jellyfish) and will most certainly spend the six weeks at sea with a perpetual nematocysts-under-my-fingernails feeling. I am a little excited to work with blue buttons (Velella velella<\/strong>) because they are a large food source for the sea sl\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

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Blue button (Velella velella).<\/dd>\n<\/dl>\n<\/div>\n

Surprise! I was accepted to the Zoo-bot quarter at the Friday Harbor Laboratories in the San Juan Islands! This program with start two days after I return from sea. My professors there will certainly not hate biology.<\/p>\n

Disappointment: The Madden Center, our main building on campus, has an outdoor wanna-be spiral staircase.<\/p>\n

Surprise! I discovered a word for my fear of spiral staircases: Spirobathmophobia.<\/p>\n

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Stairs should be of uniform length. Spirals were made to hurt you. <\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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