Labwork status [ants]
Jun. 28th, 2021 09:42 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
rebeccmeisterSunday morning we brought the ants in to the lab and got underway with data entry and general organization. JF came in to help out with that, and then at around 11, JH showed up to help out with getting things set up to measure ant queen metabolic rates.
I am impressed with how quickly we got everything set up. It only took us 3 hours.
Now we have around 100 queens to measure, one by one. Each queen takes somewhere between 15 and 40 minutes to finish - ideally closer to 15. I am not going to do the math on how long that will take.
As soon as I got the students trained up on how to run the respirometry trials, two of us popped over to the grocery store, then up to the house to cook some dinner, then back to the lab to feed everyone.
At 8:30 pm last night, the computer we are using to collect data froze on us, so we burned an hour or so getting it working again. Frustrating, but there isn't much we can do about that.
We drove home at 10 pm, then I put the bike in the back of the rental car and drove the car back to the rental place. The rental place isn't open on Sundays, so the lot was packed full of returned cars - so full that there was only a single spot left where one more car would fit. Whew.
It felt really, really good to ride the bike home. My right leg/foot are fatigued and sore from the drive back from California. Lots of time on the back highway meant that my foot was on the accelerator/brake for hours on Saturday.
I am impressed with how quickly we got everything set up. It only took us 3 hours.
Now we have around 100 queens to measure, one by one. Each queen takes somewhere between 15 and 40 minutes to finish - ideally closer to 15. I am not going to do the math on how long that will take.
As soon as I got the students trained up on how to run the respirometry trials, two of us popped over to the grocery store, then up to the house to cook some dinner, then back to the lab to feed everyone.
At 8:30 pm last night, the computer we are using to collect data froze on us, so we burned an hour or so getting it working again. Frustrating, but there isn't much we can do about that.
We drove home at 10 pm, then I put the bike in the back of the rental car and drove the car back to the rental place. The rental place isn't open on Sundays, so the lot was packed full of returned cars - so full that there was only a single spot left where one more car would fit. Whew.
It felt really, really good to ride the bike home. My right leg/foot are fatigued and sore from the drive back from California. Lots of time on the back highway meant that my foot was on the accelerator/brake for hours on Saturday.
