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!
Our consortium for the study of the coast and ocean here in the California State University System (aka CSU COAST) just held our annual meeting in Long Beach. While this group’s focus is the entirety of our coastal and marine environment, much of this has a direct bearing on oil spills and how we go about monitoring them. Indeed, this year’s annual meeting focused on monitoring and so was directly applicable to so many aspects of our assessments of spilled petroleum in the coastal zone. While the Chancellor did not make it to this year’s meeting, he was there last year.
This is a great introduction to CSU COAST if you know nothing about it or what we do. This presentation was by the Director of COAST, Dr. Krista Kamer.
Rather than showing a professor blab on about our search, two of our undergrads (Tevin Schmitt and Dorothy Horn) did a great job the previous month at the same location. I’ll let them explain what we are doing…
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