October 2023 Daily Notebook Post Log

Daily Log

31 October 2023

• TA’d quiz section.
• Met with Logan to work though what we can do with our data and MARINe data.
• Did a monthly review of progress and goals to create November goals.

30 October 2023

• Spent the day at UWT attending my weekly TA meeting virtually and the Gardell lab meeting in person.
• Worked with Ly to show the process of sample prep for BCA and p450 assays.
• Completed prep for quiz sections this week, graded more, and responded to student emails/ needs for the upcoming week.

29 October 2023

• Sunday. Graded papers and gathered exam review material for ENV 100.

28 October 2023

• Saturday. Knocked out a few mussel dissections in the AM and started grading papers for ENV 100 in the PM.

27 October 2023

• Attended Science Hour and my weekly FAB scheduling retrospective.
• Attended ENV 100 lecture and CENV 555.
• Worked on code/ data manipulation to help Logan with her community composition analysis for Yellow Island.
• Registered for SICB.
• Requested TREQ support since my NetID has changed my access.

26 October 2023

• Attended lab meeting and my BGG meeting.
• In the lab at UWT knocking out more mussel dissections to get closer to full set dissection.

25 October 2023

• TA’d quiz section, held office hours, finished grading discussion posts, and attended lecture for ENV 100.
• Met with Logan to jump into her SICB poster data and creation
• Attended weekly FAB writing accountability meeting where I worked on outlining the p450 paper.

24 October 2023

• TA’d quiz section and finished normal weekly grading.

23 October 2023

• Attended weekly TA meeting, reviewed course content and met with UW Farm folks giving quiz section tours this week to prepare for section and attended the lecture for ENV 100.
• Attended meeting with Anna, volunteer coordinator from Puget Soundkeepers, to walk through mussel outplanting process for mid- November

22 October 2023

• Sunday. Roberts Lab get- together at Steven’s!

21 October 2023

• Saturday.

20 October 2023

• Attended my weekly FAB scheduling retrospective and science hour.
• Attended ENV 100 lecture and CENV 555.
• Was a panelist for the GEODUC group. Topic was “What did you wish you knew before becoming a student/ student- TA”.
• Prepped for lab work at UWT tomorrow.

19 October 2023

• Attended lab meeting and my BGG meeting.
• First committee meeting, will require a follow-up email to make clear the next steps and involvement.
• Wrapped up grading for my quiz sections for the week.

18 October 2023

• Held quiz section, office hours, and attended ENV 100 lecture. Worked through grading for the outstanding assignments from the last week.
• Put together the timeline for mussel sample work with Alison and Ly so we were all on the same page.
• Finished the day with my writing accountability group and some work on my committee meeting presentation to incorporate Steven’s suggestions.

17 October 2023

• TA’d from 0830 to 1430. I covered for a fellow TA in addition to my sections.
• Attended BIMS ICB writing workshop to learn how to edit and accept editing suggestions.
• Committee meeting run-through with Steven to streamline the presentation.
• KRAKEN home opener! #DefendTheDeep

16 October 2023

• Attended TA meeting where we reviewed upcoming week & ENV 100 lecture.
• Attended Gardell lab meeting and shared progress of current projects.
• Prepared quiz section content for the week.

15 October 2023

• Sunday. No work today.

14 October 2023

• Saturday. Committee meeting preparatory work and p450 assay calculations.

13 October 2023

• Attended my weekly FAB scheduling retrospective.
• Attended ENV 100 lecture and CENV Best Practices Teaching Course that helps me learn and use best practices in pedagogy as a TA.
• Prepped for lab work at UWT tomorrow.

12 October 2023

• UWT day. Completed all p450 assays for the first 126 samples.

11 October 2023

• TA’d my last quiz section of the week, held office hours, finished grading discussion posts, and attended lecture for ENV 100.
• Met with Matt re: Yellow Island project for summer 2024.
• Attended weekly FAB writing accountability meeting where I worked on updating my lab notebook.

10 October 2023

• TA’d for two of my quiz sections, worked on discussion post grading and quiz section grading.
• Attended SAFS Cafe.

09 October 2023

• Attended weekly teaching team meeting, reviewed course content, prepared for weekly TA sessions, and attended the lecture for ENV 100.
• Finalized calculations for BCA concentrations and reviewed SOD assay and sample preparation for next steps in the mussel work.
• I received the FINS Travel Award to cover the cost of my registration to SICB! It’s not a huge amount, but it is pretty cool not to have it come out of pocket.

08 October 2023

• Sunday. Participated in the Dawg Dash 5k with friends and SAFS members to help raise scholarship fund money for UW.

07 October 2023

• Saturday. UWT lab time. I completed the test assay to determine sample dilution factor and then completed the BCA assays for all 127 samples in the first batch of the mussels. Went with a dilution factor of 5 so that all sample concentrations were within the range of the standards. All plates had both standards and samples in triplicate with a ‘control’ of sample #1 on each plate to help determine consistency in the plate reader. This will force sample #1 to only be run in duplicate vice triplicate when we begin the p450 assay on 10/12/23 due to reduced volume.

06 October 2023

• Attended my weekly FAB scheduling retrospective where we work together to trade tips and tools for maximizing productivity in our day while alotting time to relax and step away from tasks.
• Attended ENV 100 lecture and CENV Best Practices Teaching Course that helps me learn and use best practices in pedagogy as a TA.
• Prepped for lab work at UWT tomorrow.

05 October 2023

• UWT day. I finished the sample preparation for assays for the first 127 samples.
• Attended lab meeting where we discussed a paper I chose for our targeted content.
• Attended my weekly Black Grad Group Meeting.

04 October 2023

• TA and lecture attendance of ENV 100. Held my first office hour which wasn’t attended but afforded me the opportunity to get my first round of quiz section content graded.
• Attended the FAB Writing Accountability Group that we restarted from our summer break. It is really helpful to have a team of other SAFS grads that are further ahead than me to help me make progress.
• I applied for the SAFS FINS travel grant to pay for my SICB registration.

• 03 October 2023

• Meeting with Steven to review GSAR/ annual progress report
• Innovation Grant Meeting, whole team, to finalize details on training, schedule, and logistics.
• Attended the SAFS Chat with Sam and Chelsea and heard a bit about their plan for the grad student experience
• TA’d my first two quiz sections
• Cleaned up some of the morphometrics data on the dissected mussels.

02 October 2023

• TA Meeting with ENVIRON 100 teaching team.
• Confirmed my committee meeting and sent invites, worked on my GSAR for Tuesday’s meeting, prepared and confirmed tomorrows Innovation Grant meeting and agenda.
• Attended the E 100 lecture and prepared my slides for my quiz sections for tomorrow and Wednesday.

01 October 2023

• Sunday. Posted monthly goals and picked out a paper for this week’s lab meeting.