by Katrina Lohan

A pretty impressive thunderstorm rolled through one night while we were in Wachapreague. We were so close to finishing that we decided to push through and cross our fingers that the power didn’t go out. Michele and Kristy started cleaning up the lab as soon as they finished processing all of the samples for DNA analysis; however, I still had a few more that I needed to scan under the microscope for metazoan parasites.

It was a little eerie to watch the sky darken and hear the wind, especially when the lights in the lab kept flickering. I contemplated stopping, but I had already dissected all of my samples. It took about 30 more minutes, but I was able to finish up and then we made a mad dash for our rooms in the dormitory. While the power stayed on in the lab, the dorms weren’t so lucky.

As soon as the storm was over, we headed out to dinner at a local restaurant. The view over the marsh was spectacular—rainbows everywhere!