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This week, we did a polycom meeting with the Astoria field team so they could suggest changes and improvements to my pages - the Station Stack Plot page, the Station Input page, and the new Daily Report page. It went better than I expected, surprisingly - not too many surface/cosmetic elements of those pages needed to be changed, and the ones that did were relatively easy to implement.

Last week I accomplished my initial goal at Sharp.  I set out to show the applicability of these impedance sensors to be used on genomic assays.  To do this, I used three E.

 My ninth week was different, because I discovered in my research different things. First one my mentor Charles and me discovered that exist a small relationship in in temperature in the old data and new data! That's good! And now I'm trying to do keep with the relationships patterns with the thermistor dataset and find the expected results for my final presentation on next Thursday! I hope in God that I find that results because this internship are ending, and I need to find it. 

Supersucker has now completed two north and two south transits of our transects.  The data keeps streaming in. 

This week has been quite stressful. I am still unsure about my final goal, and I do not know if I will have any results to present next week. I think for my presentation I am going to focus on the research that I have found, and my overall learning experience. It has been difficult to work on the project collaboratively, but I have learned a lot because of it. I have seen how difficult projects can truly be, which has been a valuable experience. 

Here are some thoughts from/for my final paper. It gives some thorough discussion of my results. The data for additional sulfate/salinity/natural water studies are not included, but feel free to contact me if you have questions:

8-2-10
Completed sequence analysis for determination of organism. Beginning analysis of this data

Presentation work, including stereoscope imaging of non-extracted samples

Dentist appointment at 3pm

8-3-10
Finished stereoscope images, added to presentation.

Finished graphing sequence results, added to presentation.

Performed practice final talk

Meeting with Vanessa

8-4-10
Edited presentation

This week I made a vast number of dilute Instant Ocean and sulfate solutions. I conducted persulfate decay studies for each of these waters at 70° C with 5mM initial persulfate concentrations. Here, I show the normalized decay curves with observations and conclusions:

The Sulfate Study:

my only friend, the End.   Well, not the end. Just the end of Leg1.  Slow start but a good mission overall once we got going. Finished two of the three coastal lines (NH and CR - LP was canned in the name of time).  Got two great REMUS missions in - the vehicles went out, did their back-and-forth, up-and-down thing and came back both times without a hiccup.  Craig says the data are very good indeed...sounds like a brown bag talk to me!  And, made some interesting observations about methane that wiill make Leg2 all the more fun to partake in.