One of the most rewarding activities we do as researchers is to work with smart, curious, and enthusiastic youth – new scientists in the making! During the past few months, FI scientists Chelle Gentemann and Marisol García-Reyes have worked with an amazing group of high school students participating in the Careers in Sciences (CiS) intern program, part of the California Academy of Sciences in San Francisco, CA. This program provides San Francisco youth from communities traditionally underrepresented in STEM fields with opportunities to immerse themselves in the sciences.
CiS students have been working on a project investigating how the Pacific mole crab population at Ocean Beach, San Francisco changes with ocean temperatures, particularly regarding marine heat waves. They matched satellite ocean temperature data to crab abundance data collected by previous CiS interns (LiMPETS project) and analyzed it using cloud computing. They will be presenting the results of their research on the Thursday poster session at the 2020 AGU Fall meeting, with the title: Holy Moley! Sea Surface Temperatures and Mole Crabs.
Read the full story @ IMPACT Unofficial blog piece written by CiS student Emma Chu.
