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Yesterday we went out on the Sally Ann to swap the batteries on some offshore instrumentation.  Despite some extremely dense fog that made navigating tricky we made some new friends! Both instruments were playing host to octopi that only left their homes inside the instrument after the instruments were hauled on deck. One octopus decided to make his great escape back to the ocean through the boat’s bilge pump.  Luckily, Kent and Greg were able to save him and put him back in the water!

Madeleine volunteered with the Ocean Discovery Institute’s Wetland Exploration Program to talk to 4th grade students about wetlands and what it is like to be a scientist.

Madeleine speaking with 4th grades students at Emory Cove Ecological Reserve.

Angelica, Isa, and Maddie went out to the lagoon to change out the batteries on our instruments.  We continually measure depth, water velocity, dissolved oxygen, salinity, and temperature in the lagoon.

Giddings and Harvey attended the Intermittenly Open Estuaries: Science & Mangagement Perspectives workshop in LA. Great discussions about these systems, the issues they face, and management approaches. Thanks to the Tijuana National Estuarine Research Reserve and the Wetlands Recovery Project for hosting this great meeting!

Giddings and CSIDE (Cross Surfzone / Innershelf Dye Exchange) graduate student Derek Grimes attended and presented at the International Boundary & Water Commission Citizen’s Forum on 1 September 2016. Grimes showed preliminary results from the CSIDE project which was highlighted in the local news.

the Giddings lab participated in the SIO Block Party, showing examples of extreme water level impacts on our local coastlines. The party was attended by hundreds of interested locals who got to learn about SIO science directly from the researchers. Here Isa flips through one of the flip-books of estuary sediment accretion/erosion created by Maddie and undergraduate researcher Mia Gonzalez.

Urban Tides Initiative citizen science project featured in the USC Sea Grant newsletter along with other wonderful citizen science projects led by USC Sea Grant!

Giddings, Harvey, and undergraduate researcher Mia Gonzalez attended the UC Irvine workshop on California Coastal Resiliency following a meeting with Colleagues at SCCWRP.

The Giddings lab participated in an SIO wide outreach event to students from Upward Bound, a year-round comprehensive academic college preparation and retention program that serves students from North County High Schools. The students were incredibly engaged and excited to witness the gravity currents and play around with stratification! Isa, Angelica, and Maddie, seen in the picture had a great time as well!

Great update on our project posted on the USC Sea Grant website! Thanks to the USC Sea Grant for funding this work looking at El Niño impacts on lagoon circulation and how it serves as a window into future conditions.