Internship #15

Day in the life of the lab!!!!

In the foreground is the sink that everyone who works in the lab is all too familiar with. Dirt samples and every type of sample is washed out in the sink with the DI water which is made known with many signs to not drink. The boots that we use to go out in the field are kept on the back wall.

This is what I worked on my last day at internship! I was given 3 jars of collected samples to go through and clean it out and to put all the different species into separate vials.

I did not work on the soil core samples but I took a picture of someone else's that was in the lab. I was the only person other than Dr. Simovich's assistant that helped work on the cleaning out of the collected samples. I worked on the soil samples the first week I was there. Everyone else in the lab would work on the core samples while I did something else.

This is where all the supplies that everyone uses on a daily basis are located. When everyone is done with their vials they are placed on the rack for them to dry out and be capped and stored. And then the little booklet on the right of the picture is where all the data and everything found from each sample is recorded and then later in put into the data base on the computer.