Project Blog

After writing our full proposal it really made me reflect on how i think that this project of ours is going to go. I believe that after a certain amount of the chemicals are added into our test tubes of organisms that the chemicals will indeed kill them. One thing that I found to be extremely interesting and unique about this project is that we are mocking something that we feel these dinoflagelettes will experience in their natural habitat, the ocean and the runoff into the ocean.
I feel that our challenges within the experiment are going to include keeping our data based solely off of just the chemicals. We need to be extremely cautious about the way that we treat them with all other features before and during the project. Some things that we are going to need to monitor so closely that are going to serve as a challenge would include, regulating the temperature within the box, assuring that the light they are under is switched on/off at an exact 12 hour schedule as well as doing our best to keep them as undisturbed as possible and giving each of them an equal amount of interaction.
One thing that concerns me is the possibility of the experiment turning in the direction of the dinoflagelettes dying at the first initiation of the chemicals that we put into the test tubes. If this is the case we would know that they can only survive in pure salt water. Although we do know that they will not be able to survive in this form of water to a certain extent I would like to be able to test how MUCH chemicals they can handle to survive.

This is a photo of our bioluminescent dinoflagelettes glowing before they have been exposed to any form of chemicals.