Picture

A couple of weeks ago I was looking at my samples of algae under the microscope and I decided to take a picture of my findings. I posted this picture a while back in my other blog that was used to keep track of everything. This picture is of a blue green algae that grew in my eutrophication experiment. It looks different from the first time I saw it mainly because the picture was taken a day after I extracted it from the tube so it was dehydrated but the picture does look good.

Projects

Currently I have 2 projects that I'm working on. The first which is my main project about eutrophication and what I'm mainly doing for this is identifying the different species of algae that grows in Rio Salado while also altering the amount of phosphorus and nitrogen. Last semester I determined that phosphorus was the most limiting nutrient. One of the problems I had when I first started this project was being able to identify the algae but over time it became easier even though I'm not the best or close to that. My second project is about pea plants and determining what are the best conditions for it to germinate and currently that is at a stand still because there is no open incubator. Changing the temperature and how much light the plant gets affects the germination rate. I guess you can say I'm somewhat busy for a good while. :)

Hey guys :)

Hi my name is Gilbert and I have been an intern here at PC for more than a year now. Currently I'm working on my research preject that has been ongoing since last year. My project is based on eutrophication in our community.