{"id":1956,"date":"2017-02-01T13:14:28","date_gmt":"2017-02-01T18:14:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wilmingtonacademy.org\/?p=1956"},"modified":"2017-02-07T13:16:10","modified_gmt":"2017-02-07T18:16:10","slug":"ysa-week-2-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wilmingtonacademy.org\/ysa-week-2-update\/","title":{"rendered":"YSA Week 2 Update"},"content":{"rendered":"

YSA Week 2 Update, Dr. Rob<\/p>\n

Hi Everyone,<\/p>\n

Another exciting week at YSA with our first experiment starting examining the role of temperature on the development of jellyfish polyps.\u00a0 If you visit WAAS, you will see various \u2018Experiment In Progress\u2019 signs hanging on our incubators, please feel free to swing by and have your child show you the experiment \ud83d\ude42 \u00a0Each incubator has box jellyfish and sea nettle jellyfish polyps held at four temperatures – 10, 15, 20 and 26C.\u00a0 We took our first timepoint today and we will continue to take measurements for at least the next month. I will start posting updates on the YSA website and fb page.\u00a0 The ultimate goal is for the students to present the findings of this experiment at the CERF scientific conference in Providence RI this November (http:\/\/www.erf.org\/cerf-2017-biennial-conference<\/a>).\u00a0 More details soon on fundraising opportunities to raise funds to support student travel to this conference.<\/div>\n
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We also continued our plans to build our Linux based computer server.\u00a0 I will start ordering the parts this weekend with the aim of starting to build this system as a group on Thursday.\u00a0 We discussed today that we are going to use this computer for our scientific research, and will be having the students start some computer coding exercises on Codecademy in the coming weeks.\u00a0 We will also start practicing some graphing, mapping (using ArcGIS) and statistical exercises using data from our experiments.<\/div>\n
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Lastly, a reminder that on Monday we will have our first field trip to the salt marsh (see images below). Thanks again to the Bostick family for their generous offer to access to their property. I\u2019m really excited about the science we are going to perform as a group, and I\u2019m planning on employing this fieldwork as a regular item of YSA.\u00a0 I will send out more details tomorrow in terms of what to wear and bring on the field trip, as well as rules and regulations that we will observe as a group.\u00a0 The plan is to perform regular transects of the marsh, recording seasonality in plant and animal distributions, performing sediment cores for organics, and flying the drone to 3D map the salt marsh\u2026\u2026yes Josiah I got the drone working again \ud83d\ude42 \u00a0We will also look at the intertidal communities living on the dock pilings, repeating some of the classical ecological studies.\u00a0 Should be fun!\u00a0 We will take lots of video and images of the trip, Varun has volunteered to wear the GoPro!<\/div>\n
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Thanks again and please let me know if you have any questions.<\/div>\n
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Best wishes<\/div>\n
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Rob Condon, PhD<\/div>\n
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Young Scientist Academy (501c3 non-profit)<\/div>\n
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YSA Week 2 Update, Dr. Rob Hi Everyone, Another exciting week at YSA with our first experiment starting examining the role of temperature on the development of jellyfish polyps.\u00a0 If you visit WAAS, you will see various \u2018Experiment In Progress\u2019 signs hanging on our incubators, please feel free to swing by and have your child […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wilmingtonacademy.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1956"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wilmingtonacademy.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wilmingtonacademy.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wilmingtonacademy.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wilmingtonacademy.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1956"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.wilmingtonacademy.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1956\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1957,"href":"https:\/\/www.wilmingtonacademy.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1956\/revisions\/1957"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wilmingtonacademy.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1956"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wilmingtonacademy.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1956"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wilmingtonacademy.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1956"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}