Week 1

It’s week 1 all over again. I’m so excited about our experiment! We’ve finally gotten over 100 days!!! We made some decisions about the best way to process our FTIR samples going forward. I’m taking organic chemistry this semester, and I’m hoping to get a better handle on what exactly I’m looking at on our FTIR. The bacterial films have really been interfering with us getting a good idea of anything that might be happening to only the plastic. Now that we are more confident about removing them, we can get some preliminary FTIR data on the plastic without the films in the way. We’re going to be examining nutrient depletion a bit more going forward. To that end, we are waiting to see the results of a peptone dilution on the growth of the bacteria without any addition media. Lots of interesting things happening. :-)