There are four projects we're working on: grasslands (which is really "early successional habitats"), clay caterpillar, gummy fruit, and barcoding.
- Writing
- highest priority is the West Georgia Project paper
- then onto clay caterpillars: the review and the research paper
- DNA barcoding
- I think we have the taxa and the locations pinned down
- We need to figure out some basic protocols: there's an issue when we can't see our ladders (essentially positive controls of known length)
- Need a miniproject for the WEBS 2.0 kids
- Gummy fruit
- I think we need to switch from high fructose corn syrup to all or nearly all fructose as the sweetener
- We use three packets (~ 1/3 cup) for every 1.5 cups of water and that seems right
- need to make red ones and put them out and see if birds even recognize them as food
- Clay caterpillars
- protocols are good just need to do it
- Grassland project still needs
- vegetation structure data
- micrometeorology (humidity and T at all the grassland sites)
- more food web stuff - particularly mammals
All this in FIVE weeks? No problem : )
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