Seagrass, very important to the marine ecosystem
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Tuesday, January 28, 2014
Shelby Thomas, UR - Graphing, Weekly Updates, and New Ideas
This past week in our class we went over our past weeks graphing 101 assignment and got to work on mastering some more graphing problems. Anne visited our lab class on Friday and shared with us what our very first field experience will consist of. Where we will be going to collect data on sea grass in off of river view park, I am excited to go out on my first field work. It may be a little cold in the water so we are using wet suites, which as mrs. Woodall has listed where the rental suites will be rented from Spruce Creek Scuba off of Dunlaughton in the publix store shopping complex off of Williamson. If anyone is interested Spruce Creek Scuba also offers classes for scuba diving to acquire your diving license. They also go on International trips to places such as Palau, Mexico, Roatan, Bonaire, Truk, Red Sea, and Alaska. These are the trips scheduled so far in 2014. You can go to http://www.sprucecreekscuba.com and check out what they have in store and in stock, also other information on their site. I have been thinking about my research topic and I have a strong interest and idea, of possibly testing the growth of algae under different temperatures to measure what temperature would produce the most algae growth. This test is significant to help determine the rate of growth of algae in different temperatures and which will help produce the most algae to convert to usable fuel. The goal is to see if a certain temperature will help speed up the growth of algae therefore saving time and producing more algae to convert for the useable fuel. I am excited to begin this research and go out on my first field experience this Friday.
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I love your research idea. I guess my first question for you would be...how are you going to set up this experiment and regulate your water temperatures? Things you will need to think about as you move forward.
ReplyDeleteShelby, I think your research topic is such a great idea! One thing that I was thinking about while reading is how could you test algae into making it for potential fuel? Is there something in the algae specifically that could be mixed with maybe another type of sea grass to use as fuel? Your ideas really have me thinking. Im excited to see how your project turns out at the end of the semester.
ReplyDeleteHey Shelby, I am very excited about your project, I feel like some of the younger generation have some very ambitious ideas and visions; it makes me very hopeful for the future when I see questions like yours. Something like your research can bring about world changing options. I hope you will have all the tools needed to do your research.
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