Sydney Garvis here, with my lab partner Sophie Maffie! It is my second semester in the lab and Sophie's first!
This was a semester of organization, an underrated aspect of lab work. We consolidated a lot of different spreadsheets into one, a full data collection and inventory spreadsheet! Riveting stuff, really.
Sophie was an eager student and picked up all our lab procedures quickly. We were able to leach and neutralize several samples that were collected in 2013, during Amanda's first field season for this project in China. (The Harlem Shake viral video trend was at its peak in 2013!) We learned the art of wet sieving from other lab mates, and have many CH samples ready to be processed.
We've learned a lot this semester by reading literature and discussing papers that have been published about the type of lab work we're doing. I also have been mentoring Sophie to set her up for a productive and successful season working in the lab over the summer!
I've really enjoyed my time working in the lab, with Gabe and Gabriel last semester, and "Smaff" this semester. I'll be graduating at the end of May and for the next two years I'll be in Indonesia teaching English through the Shansi fellowship.
Sophie and Syd in the lab with our bags of dirt!!
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