My past week has been quite busy! On Saturday we went over to the Charleston Marine Life Center and got to present our research to high school students over a zoom call. Even though we weren’t able to do our outreach in person, we all still had a lot of fun sharing our projects. Later that day we also got to attend the annual Invertebrate Ball in the OIMB dining facility. Everyone was able to dress up as their favorite invertebrate and some people got extremely creative. There were even invertebrate theme cupcakes! I spent the rest of my weekend with a few OIMB students. We are usually in the library or going on late night Dairy Queen runs to get Choco Brownie Extremes. One night we decided to grab our waders and go on an adventure to catch and release frogs in the creek behind OIMB campus. My research is complete for the most part, so most of my time has been devoted to poster creation. I am really happy with my progress so far. I learned so many cool tricks to save me literally hours of work. However, I have hit a road bump with my data analysis. I have not taken a statistics class since high school so my skills are a bit rusty. The issue that I am having is that I have multiple data sets, some of which do not follow a normal distribution pattern. This it makes it difficult to run certain statistical analyses because the data fail tests of normality and equal variance. Normally a log or square root transformation would solve this issue but I can’t find one transformation that works for every data set. My next idea is to run a non-parametric test, which I have been told works better for non-normally distributed data, but I still have a lot of reading to do. Wish me Luck!
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AuthorHello everyone! My name is Dominic Eastburn. I grew up in Fortuna, California. For the past two years, I have attended Green River Community College in Auburn, Washington. This fall, I am transferring to the University of Washington to pursue a BS in Oceanography. I am excited and grateful to be participating in Professor Kelly R. Sutherland's lab that focuses on the form, function, and flow of gelatinous zooplankton. Over the next nine weeks, I hope to develop valuable skills to prepare me for university and graduate school. Archives
August 2021
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