31 July 2024
Wednesday
30 July 2024
Tuesday
29 July 2024
Monday
26 July 2024
Friday
25 July 2024
Thursday
partial water change (~10 gallons) in both the FTR seawater tanks, added Instant Algae to both.
checked extreme stress trial mortalities
updating lab notebooks, admin
24 July 2024
Wednesday
Helped Ariana DNA sample some seed from her 10K seed experiment to get more experience sampling oysters.See her post for details.
Checked mortalities in extreme stress groups
did some oyster exams, including dissection of dip/trip large oysters. Noted developed gonad in the triploid!
23 July 2024
Tuesday
Picked up my hardened oysters from PW and brought back to FTR. See post for more details.
22 July 2024
Monday
checked oyster mortalities for Extreme Stress Trials 1 and 2 over weekend, see posts for more
finally added the additional 2TB SSD storage to laptop, need to move around some current file/program storage now
Meeting w/ Steven, overviewed plan for my oysters once finished with recovery/acclimation, and set up seawater tank in FTR for my oysters.
reading/note taking on assay options (see spreadsheet)
19 July 2024
Friday
18 July 2024
Thursday
17 July 2024
Wednesday
16 July 2024
Tuesday
Checked mortality in oysters from Extreme Stress Trial 1 and Trial 2. Mortality in both, including in controls, exclusively the small oysters. Why are controls dying…?
Set up heater in second FTR seawater tank. Set to 20C, will check again later today to make sure its functioning properly.
15 July 2024
Monday
Checked Extreme Stress Trial 1 oysters for mortality (also checked Sat. 7/13 and Sun 7/14)
setting up and conducting Extreme Stress Trial 2. Using direct heater, instead of ambient heating from incubator setup.
12 July 2024
Friday
E5 meeting
oyster stress test trial. Not really successful, but will monitor daily anyway
11 July 2024
Thursday
Happy 7/11 Free Slurpee day!
meeting with Steven
Emailed Jessica Gephart about joining committee. Sarah, Mark, and Carter are on list as next options
wanted to run an oyster stress test trial, but the water is heckin slow to preheat, so it looks like it’ll be tomorrow.
10 July 2024
Wednesday
meeting with Amy about potentially joining committee – long story short its a no for now :(
Notes hereplanning practice stress test
09 July 2024
Tuesday
meeting with Steven and Ariana about Point Whitney work
data entry and notebook updates
meeting with Zach and Andy about Hilborn seminar paper
08 July 2024
Monday
Field day at Point Whitney, see notebook post
05 July 2024
Friday
Field day at Point Whitney, see notebook post
04 July 2024
Thursday
Fourth of July
admin for point whitney stuff
03 July 2024
Wednesday
Field day at Point Whitney, see notebook post
02 July 2024
Tuesday
data entry, admin for Point Whitney work (submitting receipts, making notebook post, Ucar reservations)
01 July 2024
Monday
Field day at Point Whitney, see notebook post