This week I scraped all of soil bacteria off of the agar plates, extracted DNA from the samples, prepped and put the gDNA samples through PCR, checked the PCR results using gel electrophoresis, put another set of gDNA samples through another round of PCR, combined all of the resulting amplicons and prepped them for sequencing,… Read More
Here are a couple of field pics from the Boulder Creek CZO Gordon Gulch site. The first picture is of Jesse wading in a cold marsh looking for our plot stakes. The second picture is of the hemispherical camera we use to take canopy shots. It’s tricky to get it level in some spots!… Read More
June 26th, 2016 This week I extracted DNA from PMA treated soil solutions, ran two rounds of PCR for the PMA treated soil DNA and two rounds of gel electrophoresis, trained on using Unix and RStudio software, and trained on processing sequencing data. In the communication workshop I learned how to write and include the… Read More
Hi world, I’m a tad bit late in the game, but none the less I’m here. And that my friend, is a whole lot like what life has been these past few weeks. A little background knowledge about me is that I’m 18 years old, however as of late, it feels more like I’m only… Read More
Jessie and I have been in the field collecting data for the past couple of weeks. We hike to a site, set a plot, take the coordinates, take hemispherical photos, and head back to the lab to process the photos and enter the data. The sites are awesome. It’s nice to be outside all day… Read More
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Between last week and this week my family was in town here in Colorado from Ohio for the first time! I have lived in Colorado for over a year so I had gone a long time without seeing them. The greatest thing was that I was able to bring my sisters into the field with… Read More
My name is Michaela Brannum and I am working with Jimmy McCutchan this summer in the Department of Limnology, which is the study of inland waters. I am a Marine Biology major so limnology was about as close as I could get to learning something that would benefit my knowledge of my major in the… Read More
This was one of the sites Randall and I went to on Tuesday. It is up by Nederland. We decided to head to higher elevation in an attempt to escape the heat of the city.… Read More
