Science talks at Eugene highschools

While I was visiting my sister in Eugene, Oregon last December, she had organised for me to give a *bunch* of talks and presentations at two different schools to get students excited about science and to see the application of it. The first school was the Roosevelt Middle School where I gave a 30-min talk in two science classes. I talkied about mark-recapture and distance sampling, touching on the statistical concepts behind the two methods and illustrating them with at-sea projects I have participated in. The second school was the Elmira High School outside of Eugene where I gave five 40-minute slide presentations in their auditorium covering the same topics but more in depth:

--> life at sea on a NOAA ship, e.g. the David Starr Jordan.

--> identifying the different species of animals at sea during a line-transect survey, e.g. short-beaked common dolphins in the eastern tropical Pacific.

--> photographing different cetacean species for photo-identification of individuals, e.g. killer whales in the northeast Pacific.