Workshops and Tours

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Drawing of an octopus and the words, HMSC Research Summit.

 

2024 Tour and Workshop Descriptions

 

Tours

These tours of cool areas around HMSC that we don’t always get to visit will start in the Marine Studies Building's main lobby.  These are 45 min walking tours so dress for the weather.

 

Hatfield Seawater System Tour

The Hatfield Marine Science Center has a sophisticated seawater distribution system providing reliable access to high-quality seawater needed for a variety of experiments and research around campus. Come check out how seawater gets from the bay into the labs. This is a walking tour.

Tour Guide: Dave Huber (OSU)

 

Climate Monitoring Station Tour

A collaboration of agencies at Hatfield Marine Science Center is creating a robust long-term climate monitoring site off the new pump house pier. The Climate Monitoring station includes space and infrastructure for in situ and benchtop sampling instruments and room for an innovation instrumentation test berth. Come check out the progress and learn how you can get involved. The tour will include walking out to the pump house.

Tour Guide: Marnie Zirbel (OSU)

 

AFSC Lab Tour

The Alaska Fisheries Science Center's Fisheries Behavioral Ecology Program conducts research on the behavioral responses of commercially important marine fishes to environmental factors that are critical to controlling distribution and survival from egg to adult. Come check out the lab that consists of more than 17,000 cubic feet of tank space housed in over 18,000 square feet of wet laboratory space supplied with 500 gallons per minute of seawater. This tour will walk over to the Research Support Facility (RSF) building and then be indoors.

Tour Guide: Tom Hurst (NOAA)

 

Age Lab

The Cooperative Ageing Project is a collaboration of Pacific States Marine Fisheries Commission and the Northwest Fisheries Science Center NOAA to support US west coast groundfish stock assessments by production ageing fish structures from fishery and fishery independent sources.  The tour will take place in BFB Room 130 (Ageing Lab).  Attendees will be briefed on the lab's history and our typical workload and dataflow.   There will be examples of some different age structures and then we will go to the BFB warehouse and wet lab to see the various stages of lingcod fin ray preparation.

Tour Guide: Patrick McDonald (NOAA)

 

Workshops

These 1.5 hour workshops provide an opportunity to take a deeper dive into a professional development topic.  The descriptions below will give more details about the target audience and what you will need to bring to the workshop to participate fully.  Meet at the Marine Studies Building main lobby and you will guided to your room. 

 

Creating light in a dark place

Lots of tools exist to help troubleshoot and solve electrical problems. We will cover the basic operations of a few of the common tools such as multimeters, power supplies, and oscilloscopes. We will also be covering basic operations of a soldering iron and will have practice components to solder. We will start off by covering some of the basic operating principles of electronics and common terminology. No experience required just a willingness to learn! Target Audience: Open to everyone

Workshop Instructor: Drummond Wengrove (OSU)

 

You can talk science to anyone! Communicating your research to non-scientists

The dynamic duo of Lindsay Carroll (OR Sea Grant) and Nancy Steinberg (CEOAS, OSU) are back to help you learn to communicate your science to diverse audiences. Tips and tricks for science communication will be shared. Then participants will get inside the heads of museum-goers, policy makers, and other audiences, as they try their hands at drafting outreach materials best tailored to each group. Attendees are encouraged to bring: Existing abstract or writeup (paper, proposal) of their own research or other work they want to communicate, writing materials (pen/paper or laptop is fine for writing, but please bring a pen either way). Target Audience: Anyone (faculty, staff, student) who wants to learn to communicate their science to different non-scientist audiences – no experience necessary!

Workshop Instructors: Lindsay Carroll (Sea Grant) and Nancy Steinberg (OSU)

 

Generative AI in Research: Literature Reviews and Composition

The world of generative AI is full of tools that promise to make the research process easier. However, from the beginning it was clear these tools were prone to making errors. Nearly two years after ChatGPT was released to the public, we will provide some performance updates for scholarly AI tools like Elicit, Scite.ai, Paperpal, ChatGPT and Claude.ai. We’ll cover the best practices for crafting prompts to generate meaningful, useful, and accurate results with the second-generation models. Target Audience: open to everyone. Bring a laptop to explore alongside the speakers.

Workshop Hosts:  Zach Welhouse (OSU) and David Irvin (OSU)

 

Science to Story: Creating Compelling Visual Narratives from Field Research

This workshop dives into visual storytelling best practices for researchers seeking to up their game when it comes to communicating with the public, agencies and the media. Whether you're seeking to create classroom content or broader impacts communications, film and photograhy can enhance your outreach. We'll look at examples and explore how classic storytelling techniques can inform the creation of compelling content.

Workshop Host: David Baker (OSU)