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I started testing the phase difference of Fe-CMC BH and oxidized Fe-CMC BH (prepared by just letting it oxidize in the atmospheric condition).

Here is first graph, which shows that there is a similar pattern observed for both oxidized and non oxidized Fe-CMC BH. This makes  sense as this induced polarization method is designed to measure the inductance and resistance of "things" present in the system.

6-29-10
Ligation in the morning, using the same procedure as before. 10% success rate on the last products was much too low. We are looking for somewhere in the range of 60%. Afterwards we repeated the transformation. 
SEM class 12-1230 in order to visualize mineral products
lab meeting 330-5

6-30-10
Picked colonies from transformant plates (3 different volumes, colonies picked from 100ul because they displayed the highest number of individual colonies).
SEM final visualization class 12:00-12:30

We're going to be seeing how water samples are collected :).

Recognizing certain discrepancies between my data on persulfate and that published by Liang et al. (2008), I've been returning to a couple initial diagnostic scans from the project. Below I've included key figures with additional comments.

Figures:

The ultimate objective: Optimize “The Shield.”

Hello, my name is Deirdre, one of the ASE interns at CMOP this summer.  I’m working with Dr. Lydie Herfort, my frontline mentor, and her supervisor, Dr. Peter Zuber, studying genetic diversity of the marine ciliate Myrionecta rubra.

 This week, it's my third one. It's been a week of hard work and different emotions and that I better knowledges of MATLAB Programming. I'm understand and losing the fear of talking in English. I worked creating subplots and different plots of temperature changes and variations of the seasons and interpolating functions of the SATURN_03 Station to get a better a quality data. So, I hope that everything continues good, to do a well work in this research, because I like it!

Thank You!

On Monday, I came in and worked with the OLM and the pictures I had got of the Soda Bay samples. Around twelve I met up with Wendy and looke at some other Soda Bay samples that I will take to the SEM *scanning electron microscope* Class. At one, Vanessa brought me to the Science and Health School for the SEM Class. At the class they taught me how to use the SEM, how it works, and they also talked about how they want to get this microscope in the high schools.