Hello my fellow scientists!
The concern that I have, and that has been previously raised, is that the deadline for submitting our materials approaches. In fact, it is tomorrow, because Friday is a holiday.
Therefore, we should finalize our proposal, briefly outline a procedure, and thusly agree on a materials list. We need to have this done by tomorrow at the latest.
We should perhaps meet over a meal (as this week is quite busy for everybody) to accomplish this task. May I suggest that we meet over dinner tonight, March 31st?
Wednesday, March 31, 2010
Monday, March 29, 2010
Friday, March 26, 2010
A Definite Possibility
Hello my friends.
As we have a member in our group familiar with each of the sciences, we have the great opportunity of incorporating each into our experiment.
As Mr. Marine is a diver and a marine biologist, I entirely agree with him when he says we could center our project around some sort of marine life. As marine life in and of itself is rather restricting, we could likely open it up to the other sciences as well.
Given, as he has said, that bull kelp is an abundant ocean resource in Pedder Bay, we could use it as an organism to study. However, it would be useful if we could study and organism that resides in either different parts of the bay, or at different depths, because as a tentative proposal, we could perhaps study the relationship between a characteristic of the organism (for example, length, abundance, color, etc.) in these different areas and the respective bodies of water they are found in. I'm not a marine biologist, however, nor do I have a detailed knowledge of the marine life in the bay. If Mr. Marine knows of any organisms with these criteria, though, that would be useful (perhaps the bull kelp?)
My thought process is that if we draw this relationship, we could involve all four of the sciences -- Mr. Marine's diving would allow us to gather the specimans, the biology and marine biology experts among us would be able to inspect and report on the organisms themselves, the chemistry experts would be able to analyze the water samples, and the physics expert (in conjunction with the marine science expert) could perhaps speculate a conclusion based on the experimental data.
This proposal is based off of Mr. Marine's earlier indications, but of course, this is, as I've said, a very tentative idea -- what do you guys think?
As we have a member in our group familiar with each of the sciences, we have the great opportunity of incorporating each into our experiment.
As Mr. Marine is a diver and a marine biologist, I entirely agree with him when he says we could center our project around some sort of marine life. As marine life in and of itself is rather restricting, we could likely open it up to the other sciences as well.
Given, as he has said, that bull kelp is an abundant ocean resource in Pedder Bay, we could use it as an organism to study. However, it would be useful if we could study and organism that resides in either different parts of the bay, or at different depths, because as a tentative proposal, we could perhaps study the relationship between a characteristic of the organism (for example, length, abundance, color, etc.) in these different areas and the respective bodies of water they are found in. I'm not a marine biologist, however, nor do I have a detailed knowledge of the marine life in the bay. If Mr. Marine knows of any organisms with these criteria, though, that would be useful (perhaps the bull kelp?)
My thought process is that if we draw this relationship, we could involve all four of the sciences -- Mr. Marine's diving would allow us to gather the specimans, the biology and marine biology experts among us would be able to inspect and report on the organisms themselves, the chemistry experts would be able to analyze the water samples, and the physics expert (in conjunction with the marine science expert) could perhaps speculate a conclusion based on the experimental data.
This proposal is based off of Mr. Marine's earlier indications, but of course, this is, as I've said, a very tentative idea -- what do you guys think?
Thursday, March 25, 2010
Specimens
As I'm part o f the diving activity and Marine Sciences, if we wanted to have live specimens in whatever we do, I'd be happy to talk to Laura about retrieving some from the field or from the Sea Water Table in the Marine Science lab.
Bull Kelp
Hello fellow scientists,
I have a query for you all. Bull kelp is an incredible ocean organism, which is pretty abundant in Pedder Bay. It can apply to biology as a living organism, to chemistry as it has interesting properties (it secretes ooze!) and physics in terms of elasticity and how it moves in waves. While I don't have a concrete experiment/procedure to do with bull kelp yet, it would be an interesting subject to focus on. I have a long strand of bull kelp outside my room that's been dehydrating for a couple weeks now and it's all shriveled. We could use it to look at exposure to air/outside of water for long periods of time.
Lemme know what you think.
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