by Renee Angwin | Sep 28, 2022 | Hidden
Hello, my name is Ka Mwee Paw and I am a refugee from Mae La Oon. Mae La Oon is a refugee camp located between the border of Thailand and Myanmar (previously known as Burma). I am currently a third-year Biology major student studying at San Diego City College and San...
by Renee Angwin | Sep 28, 2022 | Hidden
Before this summer, I had never spent a full day in a professional lab. But I knew I was passionate about science and wanted to learn more about marine biology. For most of the time, I worked with Jessica Griffin on an experiment for her Ph.D. titled “The Importance...
by Renee Angwin | Sep 28, 2022 | Hidden
My goal when looking for opportunities this past summer was to find an internship that gave me as much hands-on experience as possible in an ecology lab. Working in the Coastal and Marine Science Institute Laboratory (CMIL) this past summer gave me that and more. I...
by Renee Angwin | Sep 28, 2022 | Hidden
Swimming! Freediving! Kayaking! Boat Trips! ….These are all fun activities, especially in the summertime. Ocean warming. Ocean acidification. Invasive species. ….These are all very bad things. Bad things that are caused almost exclusively by humans. And as humans we...
by Renee Angwin | Oct 27, 2021 | Hidden
Going into our internship at CMIL, we really weren’t sure what to expect. This would be our first time working in an actual lab performing actual experiments. We quickly learned that CMIL is far more than just a Marine Biology Lab. When first walking into the Coastal...
by Renee Angwin | Oct 27, 2021 | Hidden
Sea Urchins stink! No truly they do. Emma, who works at the CMIL lab showed me what she does twice a week, which involves taking a self pump vacuum and cleaning out the urchin tank. Those little things eat and eat and poop a lot, and boy do they smell. One of the very...
