High Tech High Science Fair – February 1st!

Congratulations Dr. Chory!

Gabi Tukeman (HTH '11), Kathleen Estrella (HTH 11'), and Dr. Joanne Chory.

Congratulations to HTH ROP Biotech Advisory Board Member, HTH Science Fair judge, and HTH Internship Mentor, Dr. Joanne Chory who  received a Genetics Society of America Medal.  Dr. Chory is director of the Salk’s Plant Molecular and Cellular Biology Laboratory and Howard H. and Maryam R. Newman Chair in Plant Biology.  Besides her discoveries and accolades, Dr. Chory has mentored several students from the HTH Biotech Program.  Gabi Tukeman (HTH ’11) is attending Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and Kathleen Estrella (’11) is attending Stanford University.

Here is to the future of “E.O. Wilson’s Life on Earth!”

Today was a huge day for the project we have been working on with the E.O. Wilson Foundation, and the world is getting a glimpse of the future look of the high school biology classroom.  Along with Apple, we are leading the way in the textbook revolution.  The entire demo given at the release event at the Guggenheim shows some of the incredible features of E.O. Wilson’s Life on Earth.  The event is something every high school student and teacher should watch.

2012 San Diego Bay Biomimicry Tide Calendar

Order your 2012 San Diego Bay Tide Calendar produced by the HTH San Diego Bay Study.  This year’s calendar has a biomimicry theme and introduces the upcoming book “Biomimicry: Respecting nature through design.”

HTH Biotech students publish

Christina Torres (l) and Emma Jackson (r) and their reprint from the Festivus

Congratulations to Christina Torres and Emma Jackson for publishing their research from last year’s class.  Their study “Pharmaceuticals at sea: effects of the pharmaceutical Ibuprofen on the embryonic development of Stronglyocentrotus purpuratus” appears in The Festivus, journal of the San Diego Shell Club.

Happy New Year from HTH San Diego Bay Study!

Wishing you a biodiverse, energy efficient, peaceful, healthy, and project-based learning rich 2o12!

HTH grad student in the field: Natalie Holt, Panama

Natalie Holt (HTH ’10)

Natalie Holt (HTH ’10), forestry major at UC Berkeley is currently conducting mangrove research in Panama with Dr. Wayne Sousa under an NSF grant.  Natalie was an editor of the HTH San Diego Bay Study book “Biomimicry: Respecting nature through design”  (in press).

Insect orders

Bluetail Damselfly, by Christiane Pham, 11th grade

HTH grad students in the field: Blake English, Air Swimmer

Blake English (HTH '06)

While working on the first book, “Two sides of the Boat Channel,” in the HTH San Diego Bay Study we discussed ways to sample plankton in the Bay while being on shore with a class.  Student Blake English (HTH ’06)  took on this challenge and made our first remote controlled plankton collector.  He later designed a beautiful computer simulation of fish schooling behavior and the effect of  sharks on schooling activity of fish.  Then came the  incredible toy the Air Swimmer — invented by Blake.  Congratulations Blake.  It looks like this could be the hit of the Holiday toy madness. The Air Swimmer includes a shark and a clownfish.

HTH San Diego Bay books for sale!