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CMOP researchers are presenting this week at the 2012 Ocean Sciences Meeting, an international gathering of science experts. This is a major venue for CMOP to exchange scientific knowledge with more than 4,000 attendees.

You may need ESP to know what is under the pink plastic covering.

What I do know is that CMOP is one of only a few select research labs in the world that has this device and it will advance our research capabilities in molecular biological analyses.

Three CMOP products have been recently added to the Northwest Association of Networked Ocean Observing Systems (NANOOS) products page. They include : Columbia River Climatological Atlas, Data Explorer for River and Ocean Data, and Oxygen Watch for the Columbia River and WA Shelf. Visit the NANOOS products web page.

A mobile version of "NANOOS Tsunami Evacuation Zones" for Android - a project developed by CMOP in collaboration with the Northwest Association of Networked Ocean Observing Systems (NANOOS) - has been released and available at the Android market.

TsunamiEvac-NW provides you an at-a-glance view of where the tsunami hazard zones are along the Oregon and Washington coast, and allows you to map whether your home, work, school, etc. is located in a tsunami evacuation zone or not. To help you develop and plan your own evacuation routes, TsunamiEvac-NW enables you to save your current position or points of interest via GPS or address look-up.

Go to the App.

American Indians and Alaskan Natives (AI/AN) are considered valuable stewards of their homelands and are the least represented in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM)disciplines resulting in insufficient numbers of skilled AI/AN to manage valuable resources in uncertain times.

• Proposed curriculum develops a geographical cultural context to place STEM knowledge to increase interest in middle to high school AI/AN children. 

9/26/2011  Monday
Loading day.  We kept on schedule.  Buoys destined for NH-10, OGI-01 and SATURN-02 were secured to the deck.  Water processing equiment was installed in the wet lab.  The science party arrived safely and all slept on board, ready for the 10am Tues departure.  At the meeting on the bridge with the captain and mates it was decided assess the situation in the morning.

9/27/2011  Tuesday

            Sadly, last week was my final week as a CMOP intern. The final presentations for the project went well; this internship has definitely improved my presentation skills because I now feel more comfortable getting up in front of people to discuss my research and work. Having the two other interns, Cynthia Boshell and Althea Walker, to stand up there with me and present as a group was also a big help.

My last week at CMOP was very quiet, since only four interns were left, but it was also very busy. Most of my week was spent on wrapping up my project so that my mentors could use and understand what I have accomplished over the summer. I organized all of my experiment files so that they could be acessed quickly and so that they could be more intuitive. I also worked on finishing up my final paper. A long and tortuous ordeal, but one that will be fruitful in the end.

In the last week of my internship, results presented themselves and the end to a ten week project was successfully completed. I was able to state the results of our project regarding salmon. For my final presentation, all results could not be displayed, but the most significant results were presented. Favorable adult salmon holding habitat was established, along with the details of the impact of climate change on coho and steelhead adults. Also, the impact of dam discharge on sub-yearling migrants was determined.

I'm both excited and sad to say that I'm done here at the APL. Just a few more small loose ends to tie up tomorrow and then I'll be heading home to Portland. It has been an incredible summer - one I'll never forget! A few closing thoughts: