December

Hi everybody,
The quarter is winding down and I'm looking forward to the holiday break. After expending hours of research time going through papers on modelling in order to decide on a snow project for the Western Snow Conference, Dwight and I settled on snow microbiology. I think it will be a cool as there are few people doing any similiar research. I think the protocol will be similiar to the methods of analysis I used in Costa Rica on soil (see previous posts). Basically, we'll be extracting any DNA in the soil, then clone it, and see what we have with gel electophoresis. It will probably be a baseline characterization for now. Other than that, I'm still working on a carbon footprint for the Peninsula College campus and collecting snow data for the NASA forecasting project. Tune back in later, Shea