Biomarkers & Yellow Island

Mussel Biomarkers
Yellow Island
Published

April 17, 2026

Plan of the Week: April 13 - April 19, 2026

High- level outline for the week. Adjusted daily to reflect progress of the day before

  • This week is all about biomarkers and methylation.

Monday - Methylation, methylKit run

Tuesday - UW-RUA, biomarkers

Wednesday - Biomarkers

Thursday - Biomarkers

Friday - Task management & ferry to FH/ Yellow

Saturday - Yellow Island Surveys

Sunday - Yellow Island Surveys

Plan of the Day

Granular level task list to accomplish the high- level goal outlined above

  • My primary goals for today are as follows:
    • Continue working through the biomarker draft updates
    • Head out to Yellow

Projects Touched Today

  • Mussel Biomarkers
  • Yellow Island

Progress Notes

  • Today is the day - let’s get this draft out and get to the reason why spring is awesome - daytime low tides! The above photos capture it just right. The left photo was taken by Mark Stone & the right, by me.
    • I packed out the car, got my food items packed up in the fridge, ready to go, before shifting to biomarker work.
  • Returning to the biomarker draft.
    • First up, reviewing my notes from yesterday on where I left off and what I wanted to tackle first.
    • I incorporated the discussion and conclusion paragraphs, removed the redundancies and went to work on tightening up the methods.
      • For the methods, I added the R version, identified the packages, fleshed out the IBR creation a bit better.
      • In addition, I cleaned up the index creation and the spatial analyses.
    • Moving over to the results since I’m a bit stuck on clearly reviewing the updated portions,
      • The spatial results still feel a bit nebulous in the way that I describe them, so I am uncertain if I am getting the point across - the contaminants are spatially correlated, significantly, and consistently; the biomarkers and IBR are not.
    • Skipping back over to the left over line edits and citations for a bit since I am basically repeating myself, I have identified 13 citations for certain that need to be added and 17 I have to review before saying yes - of those 17, I believe 8 are redundant with added temporal support, so I will focus on the 9 remaining first.
  • I emailed the draft to Steven in the best state I can get it in without another pair of eyes, and will continue to follow-up as edits/ suggestions/ adjustments come.

Outcomes: Products & Word Count

  • Abstract, Methods, and Discussion Rewrite: 747 words
  • Results rework: 695 words

Today’s total: 1442 words

Monthly total to date: 6136 words

Annual total to date: 38,809 words

Annual target total to date: 52,000 words

Next Up: Tomorrow’s Plan

  • Surveys on Yellow and DML work for methylation.