{"id":1473,"date":"2011-06-08T19:23:23","date_gmt":"2011-06-09T02:23:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.ups.edu\/studentlife\/?p=1473"},"modified":"2011-06-08T19:23:23","modified_gmt":"2011-06-09T02:23:23","slug":"time-to-kick-it-up-a-notch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/studentlife\/2011\/06\/08\/time-to-kick-it-up-a-notch\/","title":{"rendered":"Time to kick it up a notch"},"content":{"rendered":"

Now that we’re about 3 1\/2 weeks into summer, it’s time to kick it up a notch to reach my goals.<\/p>\n

But what’s that? A drip? Curses.<\/p>\n

Leaks, leaks, and more leaks. Fix one, and another appears. I finally got around to fixing the leak in my boot, but the tanks I’m using for habitat choice trials and racing have leaks. Nothing a little silicone can’t fix. Or a lot of silicone.<\/p>\n

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Race lane setup.<\/p><\/div>\n

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Habitat choice setup. <\/dd>\n<\/dl>\n<\/div>\n

At least it’s only a slow leak. I still managed to run some crab race trials today. When I do these trials, I need to keep the water that they’re in cold, so I setup shop in the cold room. What’s a cold room? It’s pretty much a giant walk-in refrigerator. That’s where I’ll be spending a lot of time this summer. (Air-conditioning!)<\/a><\/p>\n

This link will take you to a video of crab races I did today. crab race<\/a><\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>This week I won’t be out collecting more crabs because the tides aren’t low enough to expose much of the intertidal zone. However, I took some pictures the last time I went out to the sulfide seep. That is a rock covered with bacteria. All the white, filamentous stuff is the bacteria. It’s kind of gross looking, isn’t it?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Now that we’re about 3 1\/2 weeks into summer, it’s time to kick it up a notch to reach my goals. But what’s that? A drip? Curses. Leaks, leaks, and more leaks. Fix one, and another appears. I finally got … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":45,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1473","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-corrie-wong-12"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/studentlife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1473","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/studentlife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/studentlife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/studentlife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/45"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/studentlife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1473"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/studentlife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1473\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/studentlife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1473"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/studentlife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1473"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/studentlife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1473"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}