Mussels, Thy Name is Icarus

mussel pilot experiment
mussel biomarkers
Published

January 24, 2026

Projects Touched Today

  • mussel pilot experiment
  • mussel biomarkers

New Knowledge

Day 32. Mussel Check at 1246

Visual tank inspections look fine for airflow but not for water clarity. Water is CLOUDY. Mussels were still aggregated in their respective bags/ coolers. You can smell the mussels when you enter the cold room, this temperature increase has pushed us past 50% mortality.

  • Temperature

    • Blue= 11° C

    • Red= 22° C

  • Salinity

    • Blue= 27 psu

    • Red= 28 psu

  • Mortality

    • Blue= 0

    • Red= 4

  • Water Change

    • Partial water change for Blue and Red. Salinity recheck:

      • Blue= 26

      • Red= 26

  • With today’s mortalities, we have reached 23 out of 30 (>50%) in the elevated temperature treatment. Since we’re notching daily mortalities now, I will run the Resazurin trial tomorrow, 1/25 to hopefully ensure some of the elevated temp mussels can also be tested.

Old Tricks

  • The biomarker paper is my focus for editing, expanding the introduction to better scaffold the problem we are solving, and fixing the method’s subsection for analysis was my focus today. I also worked out some tentative captions for the figures, based on feedback from Alison about which viz is most effective. I am super excited about it is shaping up.

Word Count (Productivity)

  • Biomarker manuscript and figure captions: 2574 words
  • Today’s total: 2574 words
  • Monthly total to date: 10,256 words

Questions or Concerns?

  • None.

Tomorrow’s Plan

  • Will be made tomorrow.