Scripps Institute Of Oceanography
Reflection: Career day at HTHNC is for all of us to gain more exclusive insight to the fields we want to work in by speaking to the people who work there directly. For career day I went to Scripps Institute Of Oceanography, and shadowed a PhD student named Brian Stock. For him he worked on coding the different programs to predict different statistics on fish and their ecology. Everyday for him is based on the computer, but I didn't only speak to him, I talked to people in almost every marine biology department. As for dress code they all dressed casually unless the lab needed them to have something more protective. Some of the tasks Brian was working in were, coding a program to predict any animals diet based on a skin samples. But for people in the engineering department they were building different underwater microscopes and keeping up with fixing existing technology they have. The ways that I expect my high school experience to help me with is engineering and some of the math behind everything. His credentials had to with lots of math. Some things I realized I about the marine field was how much I like the engineering part of not only marine Science but other types of engineering. I don't know if i'm interested in the marine biology and field work as much as the engineering and designing the stuff for these scientists. For next year I want to plan my topic and put more thought into it than I did this year.
Interview Questions And Answers:
For this section, I didn't have a set interview, I more just asked premade questions if I needed the conversation to keep going.
1. Q: What does a typical work day look like for you?
A: A typical day for me would be working on coding all day, and analyzing data for my thesis statements.
2. Q: What were some of the qualifications to study here?
A: Prior to this I had lots of math that helped towards getting my position, and also previous experience with coding. Having a broader area of what I can do especially helped.
3. Q: How is marine biology progressing, and how is Scripps helping it progress?
A: First off marine biology is progressing through a number of ways, and one of the more recent ways we study the ocean is satellites. Satellites can help preedict the flow of water and where animals might migrate to. As for Scripps, we help also through a number of ways but one special one, is that we develop all of our tools and fabricate them on site here at Scripps. This helps cut the cost and tailor the equipment to exactly what we need.
Emails Instead of Cold Calling Script:
The first email I sent:
Hi Brian,
My name is Andrew Dafnis, and I'm a student from High Tech High. I got your contact from Alicyn Henkhaus. We have our career day coming up and I was wondering if I could shadow you on May 19th. I've always been enthralled with the ocean and plan to someday work in the field of helping it or discovering more about the animals in the deep waters. If you could respond by May 10th that'd be great.
Thanks,
Andrew
Response:
Hi Andrew,
Yes, I'm happy to have you shadow me on May 19. I'm a PhD student studying fisheries - our lab website is very out of date, but for now you can look at the types of projects we work on here: http://www.semmenslab.org/myblog/.
Looking forward to it!
My Response:
Thank you so much for responding , and for sure I will.
Interview Questions And Answers:
For this section, I didn't have a set interview, I more just asked premade questions if I needed the conversation to keep going.
1. Q: What does a typical work day look like for you?
A: A typical day for me would be working on coding all day, and analyzing data for my thesis statements.
2. Q: What were some of the qualifications to study here?
A: Prior to this I had lots of math that helped towards getting my position, and also previous experience with coding. Having a broader area of what I can do especially helped.
3. Q: How is marine biology progressing, and how is Scripps helping it progress?
A: First off marine biology is progressing through a number of ways, and one of the more recent ways we study the ocean is satellites. Satellites can help preedict the flow of water and where animals might migrate to. As for Scripps, we help also through a number of ways but one special one, is that we develop all of our tools and fabricate them on site here at Scripps. This helps cut the cost and tailor the equipment to exactly what we need.
Emails Instead of Cold Calling Script:
The first email I sent:
Hi Brian,
My name is Andrew Dafnis, and I'm a student from High Tech High. I got your contact from Alicyn Henkhaus. We have our career day coming up and I was wondering if I could shadow you on May 19th. I've always been enthralled with the ocean and plan to someday work in the field of helping it or discovering more about the animals in the deep waters. If you could respond by May 10th that'd be great.
Thanks,
Andrew
Response:
Hi Andrew,
Yes, I'm happy to have you shadow me on May 19. I'm a PhD student studying fisheries - our lab website is very out of date, but for now you can look at the types of projects we work on here: http://www.semmenslab.org/myblog/.
Looking forward to it!
My Response:
Thank you so much for responding , and for sure I will.