New Month, Same Mission
Planning
Task Management
Plan of the Week: April 27 - May 3, 2026
High- level outline for the week. Adjusted daily to reflect progress of the day before
- This week is all about making progress in my writing deliverables.
Monday - UW-RUA
Tuesday - Finishing my Annual Evals
Wednesday - Methylation & Biomarkers
Thursday - MethylationFriday - Methylation and Biomarkers
Saturday - No Science
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:
- Get my NSF Activities Report submitted
- Work on biomarker visualizations
- Define May goals and strategy to complete them
Projects Touched Today
- Mussel Biomarkers
Progress Notes
- The first thing I did was to complete my NSF activities report and send it to Steven to sign before I upload it.
- An unexpected surprise came from PoE opening a call for pre-doc candidates to teach some of their courses as the Instructor of Record - I will be submitting my application before the May 18th deadline.
- I did reach out to a few folks to confirm I can use them as my references, and put the rest of the app on the task list for next week.
- I had to shift to knocking out some UW-RUA tasks so I could focus on my own work for the rest of the day.
- Moving over to biomarkers, my first step is to make a list of figures that support the main result and manuscript narrative, then I will review what I have and determine what I need before jumping in to create that.
- The main takeaway is that the spatial results of the contaminants are highly correlated, but the biomarkers are not; neither the normalized (to the reference) value nor the composite IBR score reflect a consistent significant correlation between the contaminant profiles and the biomarker response at the site nor the reporting area level.
- In addition, the contaminant profile at the reference site indicated a high SOD response that may be related to many factors outside of the contaminant profile.
- While reviewing biomarkers, I had to break to meet with the TNC folks re: Yellow.
- We have to spend the balance of the funding before the end of the 2026 fiscal year, so since the quote left some room remaining for additional sequences, I’m going to head up to Yellow on Sunday to take eDNA samples and head home. Not ideal, but so be it.
- Because of the shift in plans, I had some restructuring of the remainder of Friday through Sunday to do’s.
- I shifted my Saturday tasks to Friday, opening Saturday for work that was slated for Sunday/ Monday.
- I paused today’s work to get through my personal obligations since I’m almost out of the woods and back on track with manageable daily workloads.
- We have to spend the balance of the funding before the end of the 2026 fiscal year, so since the quote left some room remaining for additional sequences, I’m going to head up to Yellow on Sunday to take eDNA samples and head home. Not ideal, but so be it.
Outcomes: Products & Word Count
- No tangible products
Today’s total: 0 words
Monthly total to date: 0 words
Annual total to date: 41,162 words
Annual target total to date: 58,500 words
Next Up: Tomorrow’s Plan
- Biomarker figures and result re-working.
- Methylation results and discussion framing.