I thought it might be time to let people know what my experiments look like here in Spaulding Life Sciences Building. I figured you might want to have some insight into what my experiment looks like before I leave UNH. WHAT AM I SAYING?!?!?!?! LEAVE UNH? First I would have to graduate. Of course, I am expecting to do that this December. I am in the process of summarizing my work to date. I am trying to see if there is a story at all that I am telling.
Up to this point I have been experimenting on Daphnia of all species in this minature lake unit shown above. The four columns in the middle are filled with water and Daphnia. The lake is cooled in the bottom half with water that runs from a cooler to the back half of this unit. The water enters on the right side through the tube in the picture that is sealed off with silver duct tape. Water exits the unit on the left side and returns to the cooler to be cooled again.
I also control the lighting of this system with a computer program run on the 486 machine that is off to the right of the picture. Essentially, I am replicating lakes in minature by putting in animals, water, algae, and then cooling it to the right temperature. I measure the Daphnia before and after the experiments and monitor where they are in the column during the course of each experiment. Something exciting should be coming out of these columns soon. Just stay tuned!
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