About Me
This is a page I created a few years ago back in high school. I am now a college student at Pacific University. I am still interested in science, but I don't know my major yet. Below is what I wrote when I created this site.
Since the rest of my site is scientific, I only am going to use this page to talk about me and express my opinions since I'm not supposed to do that anywhere else. I am a highschool student in the summer Occupational Skills Center (OSC) Marine Technology Class. Since I took this class last year, I get a lot of freedom as to what I get to do, so I decided to do this web site. I have had fun doing it, but also learned about many of the computer problems that happen when you transfer stuff from an (incredibly slow) computer to the Internet. Let's just say that I basically learned HTML and that the help on the computer only helps you on the easy stuff. The reason I have taken this class for two years is that I like animals. I find the marine animals amazing. Many of them are under-studied. While everyone knows what an octopus is, very few people know more than the fact that it lives in the sea and has eight arms. Very few scientists have taken the time to study them, many do to the fact that they are hard to study. No one wants to go hundreds of feet into the ocean every day to watch octopodes (not octopui), and octopodes don't do well in captivity. There are many deep sea creatures that are unknown to people. I just want to know: why are we spending millions of dollars to travel thousands of miles into outer space to explore when we don't even know what is just a few miles under our boats when we are out in the ocean? I'm not trying to condemn space exploration, but I think we should study the stuff that we have a chance of encountering the next time we go out on a cruise ship. (Which will happen a lot sooner than people going for joyrides in the Space Shuttle.) I think that much more time and effort should go into ocean research. After all, we eat stuff from it, so we should know what is in it and what all the poisons we dump in it do. We need to stop dumping garbage into the ocean because it works its way into the food chain and will eventually work its way up to us. I want to know when it does so can I stop eating toxic fish. Unfortunately, we cannot tell the bears, eagles or the whales when the fish become poisoned. We can't tell the scavengers that the bears, eagles and whales died of the poison and that they will die too if they eat the dead bodies- their usual source of food. Mother Nature does not understand the torture we put her through, or how to protect herself. Since she cannot understand us, we must try to understand her. Through education comes understanding, so I hope that this site will allow at least a few people to realize the beauty of nature and the need for us to protect it. If anyone would like to email me, click below.