We start off our week with a chance to engage with the Charleston community by sharing our research with others at the Charleston Marine Life Center. Each lab had their own little booth around the aquarium and we were able to tell anyone interested what we were doing for our projects. The most fun part is that we were responsible for bringing anything we might want to engage our audience with. Kaylee and I created a couple diagrams to help us explain our ideas and brought one of our pressure vessels to let people see it in action. We had an amazing turnout, and many people found our projects very interesting. Many wanted to know more about us than our projects, but it was fun to figure out how to explain our research to people with various backgrounds. The stress of the summer ending is starting to build up as we are creating our posters while trying to collect data for the posters at the same time. Kaylee and I spent the first few days of the week trying to get all of the pressure and temperature data collected and analyzed. We were able to get both urchin species to spawn again which we did not think we were going to be able to do. We were able to run one more pressure experiment and ended up getting data that contradicted what we had gotten recently.
At the same time, I am trying to collect data from my two detritus experiments and have run into a few bumps in the road. None of them will ruin the project, but it just causes us to get a little more creative. The S. purpuratus larvae culture did not make it through the weekend so hopefully I do not need them again, which I should not. The behavioral study I set up last week is giving me the exact opposite results I expected, which is not a bad thing. With all of the surprises this week, we have been trying to not get distracted from our due date of the poster on Friday. I am happy with the contents of my poster so far, and I have gotten amazing feedback from my advisor and other students, but I will rushing to get all of my data in time.
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AuthorMy name is Matthew Mullins and I am from Birmingham, AL. I am currently a rising junior studying marine biology at the University of the Virgin Islands. I am working in Dr. Young’s lab and I’m looking forward to exploring the Oregon coast and getting some interesting research experience! Archives
August 2019
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