11/26/25 Biweekly Check-In
Since this is our first 1v1 in a while, this agenda is a bit longer than what will become the norm.
Performance Assessment
Projects
I have 11 current projects at varying stages of progress. They are below organized by delivery timeline.
| Project | Current Status | Projected start &/ or delivery dates |
|---|---|---|
| Mussel Biomarkers | Manuscript writing and visualization in progress | Overdue |
| BIMS Week IG Workshop | All content created and website build in progress | Delivery date: 12/4/24 |
| SICB - Travel coordination for 6 students and myself | 3 of 6 students completely funded; 2 pending award announcements and 1 pending budget approval from SR | Ideal delivery date: 12/6/24 Final delivery date: 1/3/25 |
| SICB - Mussel biomarkers (Me) | Base presentation done, need to adjust for a ‘hook’ message and clean up maps | Delivery date: 1/3/25 |
| SICB - Gray whale feeding (Darian) | Data analysis of sightings over last 10 years | Delivery date: 1/3/25 Draft presentation by 12/20/24 |
| SICB - 2023 Yellow quadrat/ community characterization (Kai) | 11/26 meeting to review data cleaning status and kick-off analysis. | Delivery date: 1/3/25 Draft presentation by 12/20/24 |
| SICB - 2023 & ’24 Yellow quadrat comparison (Noah) | 12/2 meeting to review data cleaning status and kick-off analysis. | Delivery date: 1/3/25 Draft presentation by 12/20/24 |
| Innovation Grant | Core curricula is created and WA State level lesson plans are in progress | Deliverables completed: 2/25 Reporting date: 3/ 2025 |
| Mussel Epigenetics | Received sequences & Sam completed initial QC | Start (in earnest): 2/25 |
| eDNA - Yellow 2023 | Work stalled in phyloseq pipeline. Stalled based on the mismatch of delivered tax tables, meta data, and ASV formats | Delivery goal: 2/25 Note: analysis needs to be complete for bypass package |
| PhD Bypass package | Stalled while biomarker and eDNA analysis/ writing continues | Delivery goal: 2/1/25 Department submission: 2/15/25 |
| Ecotoxicology Course Development | Collecting content ideas. Stalled. | No assigned timeline |
Previous 2 Week Progress
The last 2 weeks were vacation with individual task management including managing RUA (sa-ship) work. Most notable progress:
BIMS workshop. Created all needed curricula. Compiled resources and explainers for open source platforms, community builders, curriculum development method and pedagogy theories used. GH quarto page in the works as the dissemination platform.
Data cleaning and analysis with 3 Yellow students on their SICB projects
Project Needs/ Updates (not outlined above)
Innovation Grant
- Spending
- Update on Althea & Umut’s one time payment
- Have they received it, should I reach out to Tivon or anyone else to check status?
- Rosalind’s honorarium
- Do I need to initiate that?
SICB
- Worktags for Noah and I to cover registration, lodging and flight for Noah, and lodging and flight for me
– Noah= 205 registration, 600 flight, 200 lodging
– Me= 600 flight, 500 lodging
Biomarker paper
- Haven’t talked to Alison. Will reach out
- Updated results section (will tag)
- Alternative correlation plot (is it worth it?)
- Introduction is a mess
- Discussion is still an outline
Priorities (next 2 weeks)
- Biomarker paper (overdue)
- BIMS Workshop website (deadline 12/4)
- Data analysis with Kai and Noah (in progress)
Long term priorities (within the next 2 months)
Ecotox Course design
- When is the deadline for 2025 spring course add?
- Can we set aside a course design working session for December after 12/10?
Bypass Package - Deadline 2/15/25
- Master’s proposal based on biomarkers and eDNA results
- Deliver nlt 12.31.24
- PhD proposal
- Need to set late Dec or early Jan weekly meetings to work through
Questions for SR
- Do you have the science hour recording from Nov 1 - I’d like to rewatch how Sam moved our files so I can get my eDNA sequences over to our servers from my Google Drive.
Other news/ For your awareness…
- Taking SMEA 550 Qualitative Methods in winter quarter
- Applied to the summer BIOL 200 Lecturer role
- Looking at the NOAA NCCOS funding call - this does tie to my PhD proposal work and could cover other lab work