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This is it! My first mini-blog post here! The label I decided on was #MondayMeeting, kinda like a lab meeting, but just me and my thoughts. So here goes!
First off, all students are fully rolling on their projects now! There are always some hiccups along the way, but that's the way science goes.
I made a small ordering error. I bought these aluminum dishes from Amazon and they claimed to be 50mm in diameter. But I've handled enough 47mm GF/Fs in my time to know that these dishes aren't!
@dralgaegirl@ecoevo.socialAlso, my senior's project is having some struggles. He's not getting as many field trips in as he'd like to get so his sample size will be smaller than we'd hoped.
Also, one of the things we were hoping to measure was the #phytoplankton in fish guts. However between the small sample size and freezing likely rupturing the few cells we'd find, this is likely to be a bust.
I've been racking my brain to think of how to salvage this metric and possible chlorophyll ratios will do the trick.
You see, different taxonomic groups of #algae have different types and amounts of chlorophyll. Cyanobacteria are only chl-a, greens have chl-a and -b, and diatoms and chrysophytes have chl-a, -b, and -c! So if we can measure the different amounts of the different chlorophylls, we can get relative importance of the different algal groups.
Last on the #MondayMeeting agenda is that I'm going to California to see my mom next week, so little to no active lab work. But she is NOT a morning person, and I'll be on 3hr jet-lag, so plenty of morning time for me to work on some manuscripts.
I finally got the #phosphate measurements from a past student project that we'd intended to publish. But problems happened and we couldn't get the SRP done with the rest of his data. But now I've got it, over a year later! So back to the manuscript.
Next manuscript is a collaboration with a scientific cousin of mine. We collected data ages ago and have been struggling to find the story so that the data doesn't just sit collecting dust. We've finally hit on the Light-Nutrient hypothesis. It's my job to write the introduction. He's handling the data with some fancy multivariate stuff in R that I could never do.
So I think that wraps up the meeting. It's summer but that doesn't mean the #Science stops!
