Organizing Information

I think that I am almost done with my proposal. I just need to work through the process of organizing my information in a way that I can display it effectively. Right now I'm leaning towards a PowerPoint, but even still I feel like I am missing a step into making something of a "final product." Diagram, table, I don't know what will work the most effectively. "How to Organize a Career Plan " is what I could really use right now.

Proposal

Today is the first day that I started putting together my proposal. I don't think this will be to hard at all. Basically all I have to do is explain in a paper what the objective is, and how I plan to go about reaching that goal. I jsut need to organize my information in a way that I can effectively turn it into a paper with as little hassle as possible.

Even More Great Information

Today I did even more research. Moslty, I devoted my time to reading the articles that I was able to find on the Internet. I found a lot of awesome information and the DRC website and I found another awesome site called the Southwest Fisheries Science Center. The Q and A section answered alot of my questons and will shortly be added to my Resources List. I am extremely lucky that I am able to find some much information so easily. Next, I have to work on using the information that I find and putting it into the outline for my actual project topic.

http://swfsc.noaa.gov/textblock.aspx?id=54

Old Links

Today, what I did was go through all of my links and checked to see which ones would actually still be of relevence to my topic. I was lucky, because I only got rid of one link and I was able to replace it in no time. I found a site that was called the Dolphin Research Center. What's great about it though, is the fact that it talks about all types of animals and careers with them. This one will be much more beneficial to me then the other one was. After that I graded all of my links on a scale from one to ten. I am now pretty confident that I will find some good information from all of them. My next step is to find out which links answer which questions best.

Colleges and Universities

Right now I am trying to finid out which colleges and universities in the United States have good Biology and Marine Biology programs. On every single website that I have found, they say that you should NOT specialize in anyhitng to early. In the long run, as long as you have a degree in some general area of science, it will not matter later on. I personally want to major in Biology, possibly with a minor in Marine Biology or Zoology. Marine Biology is such a huge area of study, I don't want to get too specific too fast. Right now I am looking all over the internet to see what I can find so far I have found that University of California in San Diego, Hawaii Pacific, Duke, and CMU all have really great biology programs. After I get more information I will try to contact some of these places to see if they have any good information for me about their school's Biology or Marine Department. Actually, now that I think about it, I know Dr. Carrie Doonan who is a professor at CMU in the Biology Department, I would be able to contact her easily.

http://www.biology.duke.edu/undergrad/Contacts.html
http://www.cmu.edu/bio/undergraduate/studentlife/index.shtml

Yahoo Answers

When I was looking for some more information about colleges and universities today, I found a really good link to a question someone left on Yahoo Answers. The person asked if you could be a zoologist that specializes in Marine Animals. All of the answers that people left are actually really helpful and give a lot of good ideas about what to major in and so forth.

http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20080804083218AAEsBYT

"What is Marine Biology?" Picture

I'm happy to say that I finished my PhotoShop picture that best shows what Marine Biology is. If you look at the bottom of my Blog, you will see my photo. All of the animals that are in the picture are placed accurately in their habitat. For example, there is a jawfish hiding behind the "b" in biology, and that basically symbolizes that jawfish are not very aggressive animals, so they spend a lot of time hiding, away for more agressive animals. Another example, is the cleaner shrimp and the drangon wrasse near the "o" in biology. It is the cleaner shrimp's job to take dead skin and bacteria off of fish. In this, the cleaner shrimp gets a free meal and the wrasse gets cleaned off. This is called a symbiotic relationship.