{"id":196,"date":"2013-11-24T13:52:29","date_gmt":"2013-11-24T13:52:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/whatwedo\/?p=196"},"modified":"2013-11-24T13:52:29","modified_gmt":"2013-11-24T13:52:29","slug":"fun-fact-the-tci-department-for-the-environment-and-marine-affairs-has-twelve-officers-nationwide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/whatwedo\/2013\/11\/24\/fun-fact-the-tci-department-for-the-environment-and-marine-affairs-has-twelve-officers-nationwide\/","title":{"rendered":"Fun fact: the TCI Department for the Environment and Marine Affairs has twelve officers nationwide."},"content":{"rendered":"

There\u2019s nothing like the feeling of being done with exams \u2013 which I now have been for several delightful days.\u00a0 So here I am on my tropical island, no more classes, and two weeks until I go home to DC; clearly, all I\u2019m doing with my life right now is tanning and swimming in the clear, warm, turquoise ocean, right?<\/p>\n

Actually, right now I\u2019m sitting in my room wearing a fleece jacket and looking through the window to grey, Tacoma-esque skies.\u00a0 I just got back from a snorkel at a site called the South End of Long Cay, and for some reason the elements never cooperate when we go there.\u00a0 Last time, there was a huge current; today, it bucketed rain.\u00a0 But hey, an eagle ray swam right next to us, so there\u2019s that.<\/p>\n

Lectures are over, but we\u2019re still collecting data for our directed research (DR) projects (thus the necessity of the stormy snorkel).\u00a0 Our papers are due a week from tomorrow, which is an absolutely terrifying thought, and then we spend a few days presenting our research to the community and the rest of the Center.\u00a0 And then we return to the world of normal winter (as opposed to winter here, which means sleeping under a sheet and without a fan on).<\/p>\n

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But before that, we have to get these papers written.\u00a0 It\u2019s already looming over my head, and we haven\u2019t even finished collecting data \u2013 and then there\u2019s the analysis of said data.\u00a0 I\u2019ll be creating a management plan based off of my group\u2019s findings regarding the abundance of the invasive lionfish Pterois volitans<\/i>, which basically means that I\u2019m acting as a middleman between the scientists and the policy-makers, synthesizing and interpreting our results to suggest methods for controlling the lionfish invasion.\u00a0 Think about it as a report for a government environmental agency, giving them scientific knowledge in a way that gives them a basis for creating policy \u2013 because may be what it turns out to be.\u00a0 Fun things can happen when you\u2019re at a prestigious field station in a small island nation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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