Going Coastal 2023

You can tell the sex of crabs by looking at their bottom, there is a taiol like area that is thin on males and wide on females

I just think it will be interesting to see a wolf in the “wild” 

Hatfield Marine Science Center Visitors Center

Because Newport is on the coast the danger of tsunamis is fairly large here, the tsunami machine serves as a way to educate people about the dangers of tsunamis  

Cannon Beach is most well known for haystack Rock. It is sometimes called the third largest intertidal rock in the world.

Hatfield Marine Science Center R.O.V. Challenge

We started with a basic draft on paper, to work out positioning and stuff. suprisingly everyone actually worked together, especially when we started building, with people getting parts brining them over, other people trying the parts, asking for new ones. it was suporsingly smooth considering we were running on like six hours of sleep.

Columbia River Maritime Museum First Nations Section

When colonizers arrived in Oregon, they started trading furs with the First Nations peoples of the area. this obviously impacted the first peoples

Hatfield Marine Science Center Estuary Investigation

I think that citizen scientists are important for a few reasons. for one they can help with large scale data collection, which enables scientists access to more data for their studies. another thing that citizen scientists can help with is demystifying science and helping to educate people on the scientific process.

Here are some blank pages to add any random thoughts, pictures, and ideas. You will also be adding a reflection on the trip as a whole later!

The problems start with the fact that this trip was not, held at the beginning of the year, I know this was almost entirely out of your control, so the decision to reschedule the trip to the end of the year was a good one. However, when you did decide to reschedule it, i think there should have been some amount of communication to ensure that it didn’t go over any important events, for example, the cabaret. Now i don’t know how those staff meetings work but i think it is perfectly reasonable to assume that at some point during one of the many meeting you had you could have mentioned the dates you were planning, once you figured them out, to insure that there were no conflicts. Now i do know that the band teacher, Mr. Barnes, often arrives fairly late to staff meetings but i feel that, with the amount of trips and concerts the band has, you should have at some point thought to check with the band. Now i don’t know what actually happened, but if it was because of lack of communication, that isn’t the greatest.  Now for part 2, the handling. Okay, so you scheduled the Oregon 2 trip at the wrong time, your decision to have the band kids in one group was a good one. But then i done know what happened because it seems like, while there was a few more band kids in Oregon 1, it still seemed quite random. So im not sure what happened.  Then of course the bus broke down and that’s was not your fault, but i do think that the bus breaking down shouldn’t have been that big of a problem, because everyone should have been going at the same time.  The bottom line is that this is this trip was not planned very well, and as a result, i missed zip lining.

Dont take this too hardly, if you actually read it.

As the final page in this journal and the final stop on our journey is wolf haven. located in Washington, around half an hour from the hotel which we stayed at last night. Once we turn off the main road and go up a gravel road the sanctuary comes into view, we are split up into two groups, I, along with half of the students are sent with a guide to see the wolves and coyotes. As we walk towards the first enclosure we see out first wolf everyone takes out their phones and iPads to take photographs, I do the same, marvelling the beauty of these animals, then the guide starts talking. He explains the story of each wolf, and how they got here, as we move through from enclosure to enclosure, going from grey wolves, to red wolves, to coyotes we hear more and more stories, and a common theme in these stories is Humans deciding they want to have a wolf or a wolf dog as a pet, and, quickly realizing that wolves in fact, do not make good pets.

I wasn’t here because of caberet The caberet was pretty fun, it was a bit weird that there wasnt really anywhere we could go after we preformed as we weren’t allowed in the gym..

For the majority of these cases the only option is for the wolf to be put down, but for some of these cases the wolf can be sent to a sanctuary like wolf haven. Often when this happens the wolf needs to live out the rest of its life there as it dosent have as strong instincts as it would have in the wild and is often too used to humans. Another reason that a wolf could be taken in is of it had some sort of serious injury that would have made it dangerous for the wolf to return it to the wild, but, in my opinion one of the most important purposes of places like wolf haven is serving as a place to facilitate the repopulation of endangered species, such as the red wolf and the Mexican wolf, whose populations were once only 14 and 7 individuals respectively.

This is why I think places like wolf haven are important, as they provide a centre where we can repopulate species that nearly went extinct and a home for wolves that otherwise would have not been able to be released into the wild, and , if the board outside the visitor centre is correct, they put the animals first, which is most important of all.

Message to the teachers. I am writing this in the back of a van and I have now missed everything on Saturday, as well as fort stevens and pretty much everything for today as well. As im sure you can imagine I am far from thrilled at this, as, I had been looking forwards to zip lining, as many people said it was the highlight of the trip for them, and missing the first quest is also quite disappointing. Of course I also missed Saturday, but i have had much more time to be disappointed about that as I knew as soon as I was placed on the second trip I would have to miss Saturday because of the Cabaret. This brings us to the problem. The scheduling. This entire trip has been a mess of scheduling, before I start talking i would like to clarify that i understand that many thing on this trip were beyond your control, however, there were many things that could have been prevented with a bit more communication. You are of course not the only people at blame for this. But there still is an amount of responsibility you need to take for this.

I am writing this in the back of a van and I have now missed everything on Saturday, as well as fort stevens and pretty much everything for today as well. As im sure you can imagine I am far from thrilled at this, as, I had been looking forwards to zip lining, as many people said it was the highlight of the trip for them, and missing the first quest is also quite disappointing. Of course I also missed Saturday, but i have had much more time to be disappointed about that as I knew as soon as I was placed on the second trip I would have to miss Saturday because of the Cabaret. This brings us to the problem. The scheduling. This entire trip has been a mess of scheduling, before I start talking i would like to clarify that i understand that many thing on this trip were beyond your control, however, there were many things that could have been prevented with a bit more communication. You are of course not the only people at blame for this. But there still is an amount of responsibility you need to take for this.

Tillamook was founded in Oregon because of the wet climate. the rain causes an abundance of grass, which some business man decided made it a good place to put cows.

We left for Oregon at 12 instead of 6 because the bus broke down

Once we left we then had to go pick up another van. We ended up waiting for around an hour and it was pretty hot but this lady who i assume worked for/owned the place they rented the van from was nice enough to get us all ice cream.

We crossed the border without much hassle and then we stopped at a pit stop, where, after realizing the other van was nicer, three people switched over (aiden bobby and Jonah) then we just sort of drove for a while.

Hatfield Marine Science Center Speedy Science

For our expirèrent we decided to test whether the size of the  crab affected its speed, we hypothesized the smaller ones would be faster. Our results show that the fastest time was by the second biggest, with the smallest in 2nd

For the first part of the quest we worked fairly well together, however we were a bit  indecisive. Later on when we had to walk more we started to argue a bit as we couldn’t decide whether to keep walking or turn back, even though I said we should keep going because the map went all the way to the 7th dock and the clue said to walk all the way down the sidewalk. But we spend a ton of time walking around and not making a d’excision. On the second quest we should have read the instructions way clearer. No question.

You can’t bring home rocks for a couple reasons. One reason is that if everyone took rocks there would be none left., but a more important one is that its illegal to take things from federally protected areas, such as Yaquina head.

Columbia River Maritime Museum Crossing the Bar Section

I dont think I would want to cross the bar, for a few reasons.  first off, the bar can have 12 meter waves, and I think that trying to pilot a boat across it would be an absolute nightmare. Second, if most ships need a separate pilot just to cross the bar I dont think that I would have a chance of getting a boat across.  Third, I’ve never driven a boat and have never had the intention to, so I dont think it would be likely that I would learn how to pilot a boat.

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