May Madness

Hey all, sorry it's been so long! We have been so busy in the lab setting up the new soil experiment that I haven't blogged in quite awhile.
The experiment is something Janet Joey and I got to set up on our own without Tom's advice. It was fun to see exactly what needs to be determined before you set up an experiment and just how hard it is to find a suitable form of measurement.
We picked 20 strains each out of 25-28 strains and then placed colonized sticks of the 20 strains in test tubes and large petri dishes to measure the lateral and radial growth of each fungi.
Let's just say it sounds easier to set up than it really was. Stuffing test tubes is no fun but we got everything running and I will get to take my first set of measurements tomorrow. :)
Other than that, our diesel experiment is wrapping up and we're planning on starting some new sticks for our master collection but this time we're going to use toothpicks instead of cut up Popsicle sticks.
Well, thats about it for now, I will blog again soon and I promise I won't forget to add some pictures!!
-C

End of April

Well here it is the end of the month and with it comes the close of the fastptich season and the beginning of some awesome weather. I am really excited for the weather to warm up but I am totally bummed that softball is ending. It will be a good break though because I can refocus on on our fungi experiments and REU presentations. :S
They should be fairly easy substance wise but any presentation requires a whole lot of preparation and planning to come out well done.

Our diesel plates are growing rapidly and we will probably start another experiment sometime soon.
My one new stick plate is growing contamination free so it should be ready for transfer in a few weeks.
Other than that there isn't a whole lot going on. We requested keys for the lab but I haven't been able to pick mine up yet. I keep missing the person I need to see to sign for the key. :P Anyways, enjoy the sun!!
-C

Diesel Round Two

Well our diesel experiment is up and running! The new building is really nice to work in it's just been a small challenge to find time when classes are not using all the labs. So I am actually waiting for a class to get out of the lab right now to do measurements.
Hopefully none of the plates will have contamination and I can just measure twice a week.
In other exciting news, the PC softball team is doing good, we beat Skagit yesterdays and are travelling to Edmonds on Friday and Everrett Saturday, as long as the weather stays nice it should be a lot of fun! It also means I have to cram all my lab work for this week and make up a math test before we leave Friday morning.
I have also been working hard on a few scholarship applications, I have one more to finish before the end of next week and then I am done with those too! :D

Well That's about it, oh I guess Jacob and I have to fine tune our power point presentation and present it on Monday so we have to get together and work on that too. Anyways, I got to get stiff done!
Later!
-C

Getting Back into the Swing of Things

Well here we are in Spring Quarter and I must say it's great to get back into the groove. We are pretty much moved into the science building. We still have to figure out exactly where and when classes are taking place so we can use the sterile hood when we want. We poured new diesel plates last week and were doing transfers this week. I'll try and take some new photos of the transfer method but I can't make any promises.
At any rate I'm back at school and keeping busy with everything.
Catch you later!
-C

Spring Quarter Update

Well I feel so behind on my blogging, life has been insane! But I survived winter quarter so it's almost over!

Our fungi group lab had to pack up and move out of the old chem lab and into the new science building so we packed and labeled boxes for the move. Our next big mission was to get our sterile hood out of the lab and into the back of a truck, it is a heavy and expensive piece of machinery so in the end we decided to let people more qualified to lift heavy items take it out to the truck for us.
The last trip through the old lab was sad because all our fungi and equipment were gone, but hopefully construction on the new building will be quick! (yeah right!)
This quarter we should be continuing our work on genetic research and possibly starting our plot surveys up again. Additionally we have to start organizing our data we have collected throughout the year and work on creating a presentation we could use at a science conference. It should be a fun and exciting quarter!

Catch ya later!
-C

ENV 290 Videocast

Here is my group's vidcast, enjoy!
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ENV 290 Final Draft Podcast

Here is my Final Draft podcast, Enjoy! I'm off to Florida!
-C

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