Field Work

I just found this picture of me doing field work at Chumical, which is a small town just west of the Bridge of the Americas. This photo pretty much sums up  my job here. This day we were counting and measuring a hundred C. marginalis from under rocks. We had three quadrants and we counted up to one hundred of the little snails in each quadrant. Essentially, we were poking through the intertidal and peeking under rocks for two or three hours. I saw a lot of cool stuff. I really like the sponges that live on and under the rocks because they have such a weird texture! They really don't seem like animals. They're like blobs of firm goo. I also saw a fireworm, which was cool.

This is what I do.