{"id":738,"date":"2009-05-24T18:38:03","date_gmt":"2009-05-24T18:38:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wordpress.clarku.edu\/foster-baker-lab\/?p=738"},"modified":"2013-05-28T13:45:14","modified_gmt":"2013-05-28T13:45:14","slug":"in-which-rachel-really-appreciates-optometry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wordpress.clarku.edu\/foster-baker-lab\/blogs\/stickleback\/2009\/in-which-rachel-really-appreciates-optometry\/","title":{"rendered":"In Which Rachel Really Appreciates Optometry"},"content":{"rendered":"
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A fisherman at Dawn Lake shows off his catch.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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We are impressed. Everything we catch is less than 6 inches long!<\/p>\n

Today I discovered the importance of leaning away from jars of formalin. As we were picking out gravid females at Rabbit Slough, a drop of the stuff splashed up in my eye and I wound up doing my greatest impression of Cry Me A River. And of course i was wearing contacts and didn’t have my glasses with me. Which meant I spent the rest of the day seeing the forests, roads, and lakes as big smears of different colors.<\/p>\n

So we only threw three lakes today. My bad! Lesson learned. But seriously. I was so clumsy in the unit this morning, I kept expecting something to go wrong. Hopefully it is now all out of my system. Woof.<\/p>\n

– Rachel<\/p>\n

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Lauren counting stickleback at Rabbit Slough. Yes, it really is that close to the Parks Highway.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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P.S. from Lauren: I use my own formalin-in-the-eye story from the summer of ’06 at Long Lake (which came after our advisor, Dr. John Baker, told me about his own formalin-in-the-eye story at a lake in Alaska from years before) as a chemical safety warning when I bring people out to the field, but I guess Rachel wanted her own (albeit a third-generation) story. Seems fair. I wonder whom her story will fail to warn in the future.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

  We are impressed. Everything we catch is less than 6 inches long! Today I discovered the importance of leaning away from jars of formalin. As we were picking out gravid females at Rabbit Slough, a drop of the stuff …<\/p>\n

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