This week we have been learning how to do water titrations with Julie and it has been so much fun. At first it seemed extremely intimidating, but once you get the hang of things it’s not that bad. We also had an R workshop with Ross and it was super beneficial especially with posters coming up. Things have really started to speed up and time is flying by now. My confidence in myself and my work has dramatically improved since I first arrived at OIMB. I have so many new skills and can’t wait to continue with school.
My family visited over this weekend and we stayed in the beach house right up the road from campus. The view was amazing to fall asleep and wake up to. I’m really sad they had to leave, but know the next three weeks will fly by in no time. My mom toured some of the labs on campus and thought everything we are doing is incredible and she can’t wait to see what I find out from my research. We also did some thrifting in town and found some really cool clothes. We are almost ready to start our experiment, but some there is some upwelling on the coast here and it is causing the pH to drop all over campus. This makes it harder for us to control the pH in our tanks and puts a few roadblocks in our way. Hannah has been trying to fix the pH in our open tank room experimental set up while Erica and I run water titrations in the old lab. Everyone has been working really hard to get everything stable so we can get all the experiments rolling and start collecting data. If we get the pH fixed over the weekend there should be crabs in as soon as Monday. I will have updates next week and hopefully some crabs in our open tank room.
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