Waller Creek Microbiome Spring'14

Congratulations to y'all 60 girls and guys who participated yesterday in the II Waller Creek Microbiome study! The sampling event was a success and we got 16 samples, 8 per station along the day. As you know, we measured dissolved oxygen, temperature, pH, conductivity, alkalinity and nitrate. Today we have finished measuring Turbidity and indicator bacteria: E. coli, Coliforms and Enterococci in the lab. Results to come! The phosphorous analyses are undergoing too.

We have also filtered the water samples to retain the microorganisms in a 0.2um filter for extracting their DNA tomorrow.

We have collected all your responses and I will be curating them with your on site written forms.

I will keep you posted on the advances. I hope to have all the data collected for this Friday so you can continue your projects.

Thanks to all of you who have been tweeting for the project, checking the blog and checking the UTBiome-facebook website.

This sampling event was successful thanks to your effort and the hard work of the Waller Creek UTBiome team: Felipe, Sungwoo, Fernando, Shahana, Jaime, Curtis, Emma, Sarah, Andrea, Sofie, Michal, Harish and many others who have provided ideas and materials.

Thanks!

JP.

I leave you with a pict of oxygen bubbles that were being generated by algae. It was impressive to see the massive gas production in the midday hours.