Yellow Island & UW-RUA

Yellow Island
Published

April 21, 2026

Plan of the Week: April 20 - April 26, 2026

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

  • This week is all about intertidal invertebrates, mussel methylation and pulling off the UW-RUA professional development programming series.

Monday - 1v1 & Yellow Surveys

Tuesday - Yellow Surveys

Wednesday - UW-RUA & Event Prep

Thursday - UW-RUA Events & Methylation

Friday - UW-RUA Professional Development Full Day

Saturday - Methylation

Sunday - Methylation

Plan of the Day

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

  • My primary goals for today are as follows:
    • Complete fourth round surveys during the low tide (MLLW @ 1442)
    • Work on UW-RUA tasks for this week’s events

Projects Touched Today

  • Yellow Island

Progress Notes

  • Started the day going over the plan of attack, prepping my data sheets, and then knocking out some administrative stuff.

    • I added weekly meetings with Steven from the week of May 18th - the week of June 1st.

  • I spent the rest of the morning, before completing surveys, working on UW-RUA tasks for the three events going on this week.

  • Shifting over to surveys, I completed 32 low nd mid-tide surveys. My working window was shorter today since I was supporting the land steward and the technician who came out in other island tasks related to the water supply before heading back to catch the late ferry home.

  • On the ferry home I read and took notes on the Fei et al., 2026 paper re: clams and methylation.

    • I have questions about:
      • Their alignment efficiencies (98.29% for L01 and 98.58 for L02) using the Nanopore sequencers.
      • Their methylation stats (65,649 DMRs, 36,130 6 mA, 24,689 CHH, 4998 CHG, 1832 CpG sites). I have been focusing on the balance of lower CHH and CHG as we are unclear in their role in bivalve methylation.
      • Why they acclimated all of the clams they took (from what I believe is an aquaculture site) in a lab for 3 weeks before they took mantle tissue to sequence.

    Rounding out the tide series fun finds, a leather chiton, the only non-purple pisaster I saw this week, and Ángel (land steward) and I on our way to Friday Harbor Marina.

Outcomes: Products & Word Count

  • 32 quadrats of low and mid-tide surveys.

Today’s total: 0 words

Monthly total to date: 6683 words

Annual total to date: 39,356 words

Annual target total to date: 53,500 words

Next Up: Tomorrow’s Plan

  • Wednesday’s plan is to get back into the swing of things on campus.