April 2022 goals

Reflections on Mar. goals

As per usual, I did not get as much done as I wanted to. My writing productivity took a hit. I really need to finish up my sediment stress manuscript and dissertation proposal.

Writing

1. Submit sediment stress manuscript
2. Finish/submit dissertation proposal
   • Send emails to potential committee members (Jon, Tatiana Rynearson, Austin Humphries)

Data analysis

1. Finish Mcap functional annotation
   • NCBI - message danielle about running diamond script
   • Trembl (don’t need this for sediment stress paper)
2. Histology image analysis
   • Talk to or email Geoff about Olympus plug-in and/or Olivia software
   • Figure out how to deal w/ all these files per sample
3. Figure out analysis for lncRNA/DNA methylation oyster egg and sperm

Conferences and workshops

1. Plant a million corals workshop at the end of April–reach out to inquire about scholarship
2. Ocean Global Change meeting in NH? - talk to Hollie

Lab work

1. Airbrushing all samples from GSO Astrangia 2021 experiment
2. Scan slides at Brown
   • Got slides back from PP, currently have ~125 slides to process
   • Could process ~63 samples in one batch/day and finish in 2 batches/day
3. Learn how to do phys assays and extractions for DNA, RNA, metabolomics
   • Make a schedule for processing samples
4. Extractions for metabolomics paper w/ Ariana and Kevin

Field work

1. Begin planning Hawaii trip w/ Ariana and collect/pack supplies
2. Ask PPP people and/or Anya about collecting Astrangia

Funding

1. Submit INTERN application
   • Finish proposal
   • Email NSF program officer and Conor
2. Submit Emerging Biological Systems grant application
3. Submit GRFP annual report
4. Find out if I need to do anything for TNC grant

Outreach

1. SWMS - ecology SMILE day on Friday, April 29th
   • Plan events and send to organizers by the 13th
2. Publish 2nd ReefBites article
   • Check in w/ Tim for edits