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During my time in Alaska, I worked under the mariculture team, working on an ongoing research project between NOAA and the Department of Fisheries and Oceans in Canada offsite link . This study aims to understand how food availability for Pacific oysters ( Crassostrea gigas ) alters their ability to survive and adapt to external environmental factors such as large temperature changes (heat and cold stress). The results that will come from this study will help to inform the growing mariculture industry of Alaska, including how best to sustain oyster farms long into the future, in what location oyster farms should be placed, and in what conditions oysters grow best.

Ella Skonieczny driving a small skiff back to the harbor after a day of kelp harvesting off the coast of Juneau, Alaska. (Image credit: Courtesy of Ella Skonieczny)

A large goal of mine when beginning my internship was to be able to get out and learn anything and everything as an early career scientist.…