Hi my name is Ally Westover and I am in the eleventh grade. I have been quite interuiged by the marine world since i was a young kid. However, my interest for marine organisms was rekindled last summer. I was looking for something to do so I flipped on Discovery Channel. I watched an underwater documentary on various fish, mamals, and coral reefs and I found myself looking up more videos on Youtube later that day. Researching different animals and scientists became a routine for me the rest of the summer. This past Spring Break, I went to Australia and snorkeled in the Great Barrier Reed out at Lady Elliot Island. It was the experience of a lifetime and I would love to continue research on marine organisms as a career in the future. Today we took our first pH temperature and it came out to be an 8.4. This is a bit high for a fish tank.