Code for Days: A CMOP Experience

06/16/2015 Day 7

I will be going on a sampling field trip today. I only have about an hour before I leave and I was going to be gone the rest of the day so I will have to relay me findings tomorrow. Otherwise I am very excited.

Well never mind. We got done early and now I have time to reflect. We collected a bunch of samples of the plant life, both living and dead, we collected algae and some other water samples that I wasn’t involved in. This was my first field experience and I thought that it was interesting that we had to fill a lot of the samples with formaldehyde or ethanol. This was to kill most of the organisms in the samples and keep them from eating each other. We also froze the mud and plant samples so we wouldn’t have problems transporting them from the sight to CMOP. The sight was a nature preserve that had a little stream that was a natural salmon channel where a small fish can grow before heading out to the river. It was very exciting and cool.