Blog 10

Currently I am in the process of figuring out financially I can enroll in a class that will teach me SCUBA, my independent component. My most helpful resource during this project has still been my mentor Mike Schaddt who gave me a very detailed run down of his job and other careers in the marine biology field. After finding people to interview this project is now flowing very easily and I have an enjoyable way of obtaining hours.

1. How can I get a SCUBA tank to hold more air?

2. The driving problem is that SCUBA tanks could always be more efficient. I could not find a quote by an expert, but anything could use more efficiency.

3. If I find materials that make the tank more durable or a mixture of air better than pure oxygen, then I will be able to increase the efficiency of the tank.

4. I plan on using credible resources to show me how much pressure certain materials can contain and how heavy they are. I also plan to find a mixture of air better than pure oxygen by researching.

5. Engineering Research & Applications

My working EQ is what does a marine biologist do? I did not decide to change it at this time. Possible answers would include too many things to include but any systematic study of life iin the ocean is my best answer.

https://docs.google.com/file/d/0Byj2AloMrD2tQWxBcE52dEh4blk/edit

Interview #2 Questions

1. How did you become interested in marine biology?

2. How long have you been involved with marine biology including schooling?

3. Where have you worked in the past?

4. What do you think it means to be experienced in your field?

5. Would you consider yourself experienced? Why or why not?

1. One thing that has affected my senior project in an enormously positive way is contacting actual professionals in the field. By contacting the professional i have been so interested in marine biology trying to get a profile of the who i am going to work with that seeing their work makes me want to research also.

2. The encyclopedia piece made me understand that to be a marine biologist you need to have a specific study because there is so many fields to be involved in.

3. So far talking to people and just being  interested in general has helped me do my project the most.

4. The only thing that hasn't worked for this project is not checking the blog as much as I should be, it  really hurts my progress in the project not knowing what is due.

5. a) I would like to learn mostly about what kind of skills and knowledge are required to be a marine biologist. I would also like to know how other marine biologists feel about their job and if it lived up to their expectations.

    b) By the end of the year I want to know exactly what the job of a marine biologist is and how to accomplish it as effectively as an experienced scientists. Also I would like to establish connections within the community of marine scientists.

    c) Hopefully the man I talk to next will be Dr. Patrick Krug, because his articles and discoveries on naturally occurring hybrid sharks is one of the most interesting I have come across thus far.

Interview Preparations

I plan to hopefully interview Professor Patrick Krug because he is in fact a marine biologist, but also because I have read an article on his research about hybrid species of sharks that were found to be of natural occurrence in the Indo-Atlantic Ocean.

I want to start off by pointing out that an open ended question is a question that could be answered many different ways and forces someone to think of a specific answer.  I plan to ask him what other fields of marine biology he considered and why. I also plan to ask what field in his opinion is the most important. One of the biggest questions I want to ask him is how is working for a university in terms of his lab, equipment, and research. My most desired position in the field of marine biology, although it  does not encompass it, is a professor at a university.

I now realize that I will psychology is a hobby rather than a passion so I will instead pursue my hopes of becoming a marine biologist by doing as much research as I can now. That being said;

a. My topic is marine biology because I love the ocean and am intrigued by most of the organisms that live inside it.

b. I-Poly Citizen: I plan to handle this responsibly, by doing so makes me a better I-Poly citizen by of course being more responsible and also do my part as a student which helps teachers and possibly other students.

Effective Communicator: I plan to find a mentor through various methods, this allows me to develop my skills as a communicator by communicating with mentors about mentorship and possibly marine biology itself.

Effective Learner:  I plan to keep an interest in my topic, this will help me become an effective learner by allowing me to learn something I am passionate about and actually want to learn.

Effective User of Technology: I plan to scour whatever technological resource I can find and create different documents based on what needs to be presented. This gives me experience using different computer programs and finding a more efficient method of search.

1. In my quest to find a willing psychologist I came across three possible candidates (whose names now escape me,) and four more possiblilties. My first attempt to find a psychologist was by asking family and my mother said she might  have found someone. It was her former bosses husband, but after a short talk with my mother it was clear that he was too busy. After she found me two more co-workers (I should mention she works at City of Hope,) who had the same stories. I hadn't even come in contact with them and I was getting absolutely no where. I started looking for more possibilities and saw opportunity in one man my family simply calls "Peter." Peter  is a communications professor at Citrus College. I decided to ask him and he told me he knew of many of them if I wasn't very picky of which kind of psychology it was. I told him I wasn't picky and to keep me updated on his progress. The only problem with Peter was that he was on vacation and came back to school on September 4. I was however very grateful for the opportunity.

2. I think professional mentorship is a requirement because it follows one rule that iv'e always believed true, you learn by doing. With a mentor there is someone whom you can ask questions of when you fail to understand something. A mentor would also have experience with cases in the field not normally encountered and be aware of how to deal with them.

3. I plan to wait for the response of the possible candidates and if they do not come across I will put in more with actual organizations or other practicing professionals.