After presenting my research to my colleagues and listening to their feedback and comments, I decided to restart any treatments that I have completed up to this point. I was originally doing one treatment every couple of days, but this can bring up some confounding variables such as time of day, sea water quality and the conditions of the crabs. To minimize any error that may result from these variables, I must start all the treatments for one experiment at the same time; which means 75 juveniles, 200 megalopa and 50 grams of mussels in 15 containers all running at the same time for experiment one and 15 adults, 100 juveniles and 100 grams of mussels in 15 fish tanks for experiment two. This week I spent my time getting prepared to start my first experiment. The only issue that I am coming across is for experiment two in finding enough fish tanks that are similar in size to use for 15 adult crabs at the same time. I only have access to five fish tanks that are identical, so to compromise with what is available, I will be using large containers. These large containers are not identical to the fish tanks so the rate of contact between crabs in the fish tanks will be different from the rate of contact in the large container. To work around this, every treatment will have the same number of fish tanks versus large containers.
This weekend, Nicole along with the other interns and I drove up to Newport to visit the Hatfield Marine Science Center and the Oregon Coast Aquarium. At the Hatfield Marine Science Center, we got a tour of the labs and classes that they offer directly from OSU. We also met and had an ice cream social with the research interns of Hatfield.
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AuthorMy name is Juan Flores and I am an intern in Alan Shanks’ lab. I am from a small city in the Los Angeles County, Pico Rivera, California. I will be transferring to the University of California, Santa Cruz in the Fall, pursuing a Bachelors in Biology. Archives
August 2018
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