Starting a new thread to document the delightful things I am finding out about joining the tech team at Monterey Bay Aquarium.
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38. We took a large org-wide team photo and the photographer said SAY ANCHOVIES
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39. I had to shout to be heard while presenting in a conference room because some of the gulls started absolutely screaming right outside
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@skinnylatte and I had to take a 1 hour drive followed by a 4 hour puking pelagic birdwatching tour before I saw my first albatross. Lucky you!!
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@ram haha I don’t get sick on boats. Yay
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40. We shut down all of today and tonight we have a staff and guests only 40th anniversary party. Not only is there delicious food at every part of the aquarium, it’s also magical seeing all of this
Watching my guests (some of whom have never been here) gawk at everything is so fun
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@skinnylatte I can't even express how happy this thread made me!
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@sbourne yayyy
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41. I posted my first question in the ‘All Staff Q&A’.
(Picture of fish)
‘What is the scientific name of this fish?’
Got a response in 1 minute (Zaniolepis latipinnis.)
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42. At a meeting this morning
I asked my coworker ‘do you think people hear what we talk about, and have the same ?? Face I did when I heard people talking about gelatinous zooplankton?’
She thought probably but we both agreed gelatinous zooplankton is cooler than databases
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@isol don’t be jelly!!
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43. I had lunch with the ‘Director of Puns’ today. She looked forward to working closely with me. I said I hope it all goes swimmingly
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44. I learned that cool videos like these are shot in the office next to mine
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45. Saw someone write ‘oysters are an embodiment of queerness’ and I truly feel like I’ve found my people
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@skinnylatte The awesomeness of your posts about your new gig is wonderful.
Thank you.
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@funnymonkey @skinnylatte it's a balm for weary souls.
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46. I’ve been fascinated by ‘whale fall’ since I first learned about it here.
Here’s an incredible video of a whale fall exploration dive in the deep sea just off Monterey Bay.
What is a whale fall?
The oceans' depths are supplied by nutrients falling down from the surface waters. When whales die and sink, the whale carcasses, or whale falls, provide a sudden, concentrated food source and a bonanza for organisms in the deep sea. Different stages in the decomposition of the whale carcass support a succession of marine biological communities. Scavengers consume the soft tissue in a matter of months. Organic fragments, or detritus, enrich the sediments nearby for over a year. Importantly, the skeleton supports rich communities for years to decades, both as a hard substrate, or the base, for invertebrate colonization and as a source of sulfides from the decay of organic compounds of whalebones. Microbes live off of the energy released from these chemical reactions, particularly and form the basis of ecosystems for as long as the food source lasts. At deep sea levels this forms a new food web and provides energy to support single- and multi-cell organisms and sponges, thus adding to the oceans food chain.
(oceanservice.noaa.gov)
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47. I talked to real people about animal poop 5 different times today (I counted). Different animals too
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48. I found the internal form for ‘booking an animal encounter’. My coworker said ‘usually it’s for team building or bringing your family on behind the scenes visits BUT if you want to hang out with the octopus or otters on your lunch break by yourself, I don’t see why not?’
