Today, we started the multi-species experiment! Very exciting! Details in post below.
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Notes and Preparation for Multi-Species Experiment
Likely to start soon!!! Waiting for the adult that has been exposed to another wasting adult to show signs of twisting, then the coelomic fluid from that star will be used to inject into the Friday Harbor stars (raw for exposed, and heat-killed for control), and then the Friday Harbor...
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Start Co-housing Multispecies - No disease exposure yet
Today we co-housed the three species that will be part of our multi-species experiment.
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I'm Back!! And Starting Grad School!! Again!!
Hello! I’m back! I have been working for Drew Harvell as a technician on two projects: Sea Star Wasting Disease and Eelgrass Wasting Disease. I am turning the three-years-worth of work I did on the sea star project into an upcoming PhD, and will also be doing one chapter on...
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November 2021 Goals
I came back from Marrowstone on October 19th! It was a great three months out there working with Alyssa Gehman (Hakai Institute and UBC) and Miranda Winningham, with help from Paul Herschberger and the folks at USGS Marrowstone Field Station. Now that I’m back, it’s time to return to notebook...
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