Marine Biology Project

 For week number 2, Sam and I mostly stayed local. Hoping we could catch a fish so we could study it and see first hand what type of micro plastics enter the fish we caught. Mostly just to get a feeling of accomplishment, and to have the evidence that fish really are effected by micro plastics, and we got to prove it. On Monday, Sam and I pretty much went fishing the whole day in order to receive and study the information we desired, we fished on land at numerous different locations from around 10-3, then later went out fishing with kayaks hoping that would give guys a better chance. We were out there for a long time to the point where it was pitch black out and paddling through a rain storm, not what we had in mind. On Tuesday we went to Newport Rhode Island to catch a nationally broadcasted boat race that works with the pollution of the ocean and the problems with micro plastics, we were able to read all about the focuses these boats have and what their mission is for helping and stu

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 Today Sam and I traveled over to WHOI again to meet with a doctor, Dr. Moore. Dr. Moore is not in the field that we are researching, micro plastics, but he still works with apart of our project, pollution. He researches the pollution and how it affects whales, specifically right whales, and how they get affected by lobster and snow crab traps and lines. He had a lot to say about how close right whales are getting to becoming extinct, he expressed serious sadness because he’s been working on this issue for over 30 years and as Dr. Moore puts it “it hasn’t gotten better the way it’s supposed to” the reason he was so down about this is because humans are the ones who are ruining this beautiful animals existence, with not only the brutal cruelty of the traps and lines, but mostly the propellers from ships. These cause most the deaths of whales, and also, starvation, because of climate change and water temperature change. Back to the traps and lines, the reason this pollution is so harmful

 For day 2 Sam and I set off to Newport Rhode Island for a nationally broadcasted boat race, the reason we went to this boat race is because of one of our mentors, Jen Mccann, told us to come when we visited URI. So once we got there, there was a whole festival going on with food trucks, exotic cars on display ( which sam and I found very intriguing ), helly hanson shops because it was sponsored by them, and then more massive shops for the boat racing. We were able to see the boats that were docked and didn’t get to see any thay were coming in, which would’ve been really cool because they are super large sailboats that are modified to go extremely fast to the point where they hover over the water. it’s actually incredible. Anyways the whole reason Jen invited us was because all the ships during the race ( I should mention that these ships go around the world in the span on a few months, and newport was just a destination ) these ships during the race all have a purpose for the environm

  https://share.icloud.com/photos/018d3WEURvSAtbBUrsDkl90dg   I forgot to add that we also went fishing off of a bridge for about an hour to an hour and a half. which means i messed up my times, we left the first place we went to at about 12 after getting there at around 10, then after leaving the bridge at around 1:30pm we came home for a little then went off at around 4 and were out on the water for about 4-5 hours like i said in the video and got back home at around 9:15.  here are some photos from today - 

 This week, Sam and I were traveling a lot to go meet up with people we reached out to months back and we also stayed local this week a couple of days and did some fishing and also did some beach cleaning. On Monday, Sam and I didn't have anything scheduled so we decided to go to numerous different beaches and clean up the beaches, specifically looking for plastics and fishing nets, which we were successful with. At the end of the day we gathered a lot of trash, separated the trash into separate piles to show the diversity, and then took a video of it for our blog. The next day, Tuesday, we went to the store and bought fishing gear, after about an hour we went to the ocean off a spot Sams mother recommended and attempted to catch a fish for about 2-3 hours, that didn't end up working out very well so we went to a different spot and tried there for about 2 more hours and had no luck at all. Later that night we went out and went fishing one more time at a place near Sams house an

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https://share.icloud.com/photos/031ysDF8yUFwwaJZ8Bq79SUYg   Today I made a video blog, here are some pictures from today -  these photos are for the request from the one and only @Kyle connolly.  Ross Young also asked, so here is some cool photos from our spots. ( "Our" meaning Sam and I )

 Today was a big day for Sam and I, we set out at 10am and went to woods hole to meet with multiple professionals, and the head of fundraising at WHOI. We met with Jim Flynn, who is the head fundraiser at WHOI and went out to lunch to just talk about what our goals are for this project and what our plan was after we get all the information from the scientists. After lunch we set out to meet with a senior scientist named Chris Reddy, we learned a lot about Chris and his past and how he got to be apart of WHOI, and then his assistant came over and they started nonstop talking about their projects that they've worked on. He mentioned a lot of chemistry vocabulary that was way above my vocabulary but essentially what he was talking about during our conversation with him and his assistant ( Brian ) was how plastics that enter the ocean essentially are decomposable, there are certain molecules that are inside plastic that the ocean can break down, and not only the ocean but Mother Nature

for day number 2 we set out and got a bunch of fishing gear so we could fish and hopefully get a few so we could dissect them and review what is in the fishes diet. Once we acquired all the gear we set out and went fishing for a few hours at one spot, it didn't work out very well so we ended up moving around the spot trying to find a better location of the fish. We ended up not being able to retrieve any fish so we left and went to another spot for an hour or so, no luck at all so far, but we plan on setting off later tonight and go night fishing because we've heard there has been better luck at this spot in the nighttime. About a half an hour ago or so we sorted out all of our plastics that we picked up yesterday into categories, and once we are all done with picking up trash for our two weeks we will show our progress pictures and how much we accumulated.  ( This is the next day ) - we ended up not getting any fish but we met someone at the spot we were at and he was catching

Today we gathered data from working on multiple beaches and gathered lots of scattered plastics and random items from the beaches we worked on, we also contacted a few professionals on the study of micro plastics and got meetings set up for the next week. The beaches that we went to were not very populated but we were able to grab multiple fishing nets scattered from fishing boats, random plastics that people left at the beach, and a load of plastic bottles and cans. The first beach we went to we covered the whole beach which took us close to 2 and a half hours, the second beach that we traveled to was an extremely large beach but by the time we got there it was closed so we had the whole beach to ourselves because we just informed the worker that we were cleaning it for a school project. This beach we weren't able to cover the whole thing because of how long it was so we plan on going back another time during this week or next, we cleaned this beach for 3 hours. I forgot to mentio