Last week we finished data collection! We collected a total of 4360 trees and have started running statistics. We found that nurse plants effect island oak health and growth rates. We also found how tall and thick trees are more reproductive. This will help future management of Santa Rosa Island.
Went out to Anacapa Island this weekend to finish up my advanced open water certification with Ventura Dive. Next stop scientific dive school in Long beach!
This last week we tried some different solutions for dissolving crab tissue and shells so that we might “float” our plastics out to save time when looking for plastics. We are tweaking the methods used in the Claessens et al 2013 paper. We are having to tweak because they fried all of the fibers from the samples. I will have more updates later in the week.
My SAGE poster will be submitted at the end of this week. I have made great improvements of its design over the past few weeks. All I have left to do is finish my capstone paper. I am just having some issue with how to conduct my common garden statistics on SPSS. Hopefully, I will figure it out this week. 
The last couple of weeks, I have been working on my poster for my capstone class. This poster will be presented at SAGE research conference at CSU Channel on Saturday, May 14th. Here is a sneak peak of what I will be presenting on.
This week I put the final touches on my poster for the Sage conference, now its time to finish my paper. I have been working on my paper in sections throughout the year and have my introduction and methods finished. Now it’s time for the meat of the paper, the results and discussion. It is going to be a long hard struggle the next two weeks as I finish up my paper and make sure it is at a professional level. The end is in sight and it will be nice to take a well deserved break after all this work I have put in.
I also had some encouragement from my research adviser, who said that he would like me to publish my paper. He suggested that I combine my paper with Evangeline Forster’s paper who did the same common garden experiment but with Torrey pines. If we decide to go this route it will mean another long year of research and writing but it will be worth it if we get a publication in the end.
This week, I’m working on my poster for capstone which will showcase all my work this past year. Here is my main map for the poster. These are the randomly generated plot points which I sampled.
For the past couple weeks I have been working on my poster for the Sage Conference. This is the culmination of all my research over the year and has been a lot of work as I analyze my data. At the conference I will be presenting along side many of my colleagues who are also presenting on many interesting topics. I you are reading this you are probably interested in research and you are welcome to come to the Sage Conference on May 14 at 9 am in the library on Cal State Channel Islands campus.
Last week we looked at the first draft of our posters. Since then we revised them and are going to work again today to peer review them. This is what mine looks like so far. This week I will work to make my graphs in plotly instead of excel.
I finally finished formatting my poster. It’s starting to look good. I have to make some final touch ups and finalize my text.
Other than that, my project is coming along well. All I have to do is slap together my paper, revise it 72 times as well as my figures, and turn it in (to Dr. O’Hirok), then edit it another four or five times, then turn it in!
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