It doesn’t seem possible that our work here is over half-way over…it seems like we just got started! We had a great July 4th with fireworks and a cookout, and now we’re on the downhill side of the research experience.
Having gathered all of my data already, I have been helping some of the others with theirs. Today I got up nice and early and went over to help Michawn count E. coli colonies on agar plates…32 plates in all…covered in little bitty white dots. I was seeing spots the rest of the day! Then it was time for lizard care again. We had gotten in a new shipment of wild caught green anoles and they are beginning to lay eggs…we have found 10 in the last three days! These are being incubated to add to the population in the lab.
I have been concentrating on getting my data analyzed, so other things have sorta been neglected…like my blog. But, hopefully, I am going to have some free time shortly and I plan to spend some of it nosing around Stillwater. Look for some interesting pictures in the next week or so. I’m signing off now so I can get up early enough to see my mentor in the morning. Take care!