Promoted

Yesterday and today have been about organizing and redoing some of the paperwork/information dispersal methods that we have (spreadsheets, charts, whiteboards, etc.).  Nathalie told me that I'm in charge of the aquarium and the rest of the lab for the rest of the week, so I guess I'm promoted?  She's busy with the incubation setup so that leaves me to do all of the managerial work she would normally do.  Today I've just been logging temperatures, fixing machines, learning how different programs work, and typing up Excel spreadsheets to organize the data.  Yinan's been doing dissections, and Urjeet's been finding tubing for the incubation room.

We also had a team meeting at 1:30.  I will not be going on the next fishing trip.  They saw that they really don't need more than three people at a time to go, and Urjeet loves to fish so he offered to come.  I'll remain behind and help out with the aquarium and if the dissolved oxygen probe goes haywire again.

Right now I hear some cracking behind me.  It's more than likely the glacier in the back calving.  It's been breaking off large chunks of ice a lot lately.  There's also a ridiculous amount of wind, so it could be that too.  We're supposed to get a storm tomorrow.  Wind speeds should reach 40 knots (46mph).

Well, back to organizing stuff and making sure everything's in working order.  I signed out ("issued") two waterproof lab notebooks to myself today.  I need something to document everything.  They had labels on them asking for people to please be careful with them and only use them for proper lab reasons since they each cost about $45.  Also, got plenty of Sharpies to make the world go 'round.

At sunset (close to 5:40), I'll be closing the tanks and taking the temp and O2 measurements again.  Hopefully our rockcod, N. coriiceps, won't try to eat my temperature and O2 probes like they tried earlier today.