“Work smarter… not harder” Allen F. Mogenstern, industrial engineer, and the Creator of the work simplification program coined this term around the 1930's. "The programs intent was to increase the ability of people to produce more with less effort". (Catherine Giordano author at Tough Nickel). Relating to this quote, the smallest inventions and ideas in our scientific projects are turning out to be the biggest time saving mechanics, allowing us to do more in less time. For some of the larger mechanical projects, we have been getting a lot of help from the maintenance crew here to aid in some of our engineering needs. Things like our chillers, pressure vessels, motors for stir racks, custom siphons and more... Creating tools within the wonder-shack of OIMB engineers and maintenance men has been such a huge help. Together we have created the perfect tools in aiding our projects, with lightning fast action Shout out to James and Mike! Without them, our projects would not be possible! The Data Collecting Assemblage The data collecting army had been assembled this Friday, (7/19/19) and with about 12 people strong, we recorded about 4000 embryos in one day of the same two species we have been observing, Strongylocentrotus fragilis (Deep sea urchin) and Strongylocentrotus purpuratus (Common tidepool urchin). We recorded their cell stages, as well as their behavior and developmental patterns. Our system is pretty great, there are two teams. One team works on the temperature tolerance experiment. Team two looks at the pressure experiment. The first person in line for each team is pulling embryos from viles, and preparing slides for the Person 2, who is observing each embryo under a microscope. Person 2 will then call out what stage the embryos are at, it's behavior, and any other notes such as present bacteria. Person 3, is recording this data, and person 4 is breaking down each slide to hand of clean slides for person 1 again. And the cycle continues on for many hours. We are planning to keep the team together for the many more full days of data collection, in hopes of achieving our project goals. Our goal for the next two weeks is to have enough data replicates to draw accurate conclusions on the tolerances of these sea urchin species from embryo to larval stages. R.O.V. Boat Trip!
Craig had invited Matt and I onto the boat for their R.O.V. (Remotely Operated Vehicle) expedition this week., and it was a blast. The seas were so calm it was almost unbelievable, no sea sickness at all! As a result of this, I was able to help out with nearly every aspect of manning the R.O.V., from feeding out the cable’s slack, controlling the cable speed, to driving the R.O.V. itself. We saw corals, many fish, sea cucumbers, a sea hare, so many species of algae, and more. I would be thrilled to be apart of the adventure I hope I can be apart of more deep sea trips in the future! See slideshow above and enjoy the journey!
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AuthorMy name is Kaylee Wilkinson, I am both a student, and am currently employed by Lane Community College in their wet lab for marine biology research. I serve as a coral husbandry assistant and tank-scape artist. I enjoy sciences where you can dive into the "unknown", being in Craig Young's lab is perfect for such interests. I am thankful for Dr. Young and his graduate students to have taken me in as an REU intern this summer, they have been very enjoyable to work with! Archives
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