In Florida now, spent a brief 72 hours in Minnesota before flying here. Everything wrapped up well in Maine, and there will be more info about that later. For now I'm painting my room, settling into my house, figuring out my classes, and trying to cool down in this 100 degree weather.
love,
whitney
Monday, August 23, 2010
Monday, August 9, 2010
Time's Flying!
Wow! I can't believe that I'm almost done with my 10 weeks here in Maine. This last week is going to be a little bit crazy, but manageable. I just got done printing my super official looking awesome scientific poster and hung it up in the entry way for everyone to see! Our final presentation will be on Thursday from 1-4pm... so until then it's just time for practicing, cleaning, packing, and doing any last minute science-related things we'd like. I plan on making some more videos of the barnacles in the flume to take home as souvenirs! Last night we went salsa dancing in Boothbay Harbor, ME which just goes to show that even in the most remote northern towns people will still want to get their groove on.
I can't wait to be home! More updates later.
I can't wait to be home! More updates later.
Friday, July 30, 2010
Tuesday, July 13, 2010
Thursday, July 8, 2010
DataDataData
It has been collecting time for the past couple weeks here in the Fields lab. I did a couple runs of filming and analyzing groups of barnacles feeding to find their beat frequency. Here's a graph showing 9 barnacles and their responses to the change in temperature. I'll hopefully be able to upload a little video clip to show what I've been looking at, but right now the file size is waaaay too large.
The grazing experiments are well underway. I did a preliminary experiment with just a couple rocks filled with barnacles to see if 4 hours is enough time for them to eat enough to make a difference. And it is! They ate about 30% of what I gave them, which was Thallasiosira weissfloggi (TW for short, a type of algae). Today I started a culture of TW which will hopefully grow like crazy and be ready for barnacle grazing on Sunday/Monday.
Now the only thing left to tackle is the boundary layer/reynolds number calculations...
Saturday, June 26, 2010
pictures (look down...)
picture 1: view from the floating dock at Bigelow, looking up towards the main building. Photo taken during low tide, water rises an additional 9 ft during high tide here!
picture 2: view from the stationary dock at Bigelow, still looking twards the main building.
picture 3: view from where pic2 was taken. Looking out at the harbor, the location where I'm staying is to the right across the harbor.
picture 4: view from behind the main building. One of the "labs" that can be driven across the country, and put on a ship!
picture 5: view from outside the main building, to the left and down is where the docks are.
picture 6: view of the back of the main building, my lab is in the grey building, the white one story is the conference/break room.
picture 7: view from inside Fields lab, where I spend most of my time. Towards the back left is the flume, with the large black cylinder going into it (velocimeter). To the right is the video station, and the computer as well.
picture 2: view from the stationary dock at Bigelow, still looking twards the main building.
picture 3: view from where pic2 was taken. Looking out at the harbor, the location where I'm staying is to the right across the harbor.
picture 4: view from behind the main building. One of the "labs" that can be driven across the country, and put on a ship!
picture 5: view from outside the main building, to the left and down is where the docks are.
picture 6: view of the back of the main building, my lab is in the grey building, the white one story is the conference/break room.
picture 7: view from inside Fields lab, where I spend most of my time. Towards the back left is the flume, with the large black cylinder going into it (velocimeter). To the right is the video station, and the computer as well.
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