{"id":1589,"date":"2011-06-23T11:08:18","date_gmt":"2011-06-23T18:08:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.ups.edu\/studentlife\/?p=1589"},"modified":"2011-06-23T11:08:18","modified_gmt":"2011-06-23T18:08:18","slug":"the-bird-and-the-worm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/studentlife\/2011\/06\/23\/the-bird-and-the-worm\/","title":{"rendered":"The bird and the worm…"},"content":{"rendered":"

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<\/a>Hi! I\u2019m Rachael! I\u2019m going into my second year of summer research. I work with Peter Wimberger on ice worm phylogenetics. Last year\u2019s highlight: finding the southernmost ice worm population (Lewis Glacier, South Sister, OR). This year, I\u2019m looking to expand my research for last year by sampling more glaciers in Central Oregon, but also expanding into ecological data as well. I\u2019m going to be doing some stuff with stable isotopes, and caloric content to continue Tim Clute\u2019s thesis research and also looking at the biological conditions that determine when ice worms emerge, which was started by Ali Garel.<\/p>\n

Unfortunately, we\u2019re kinda being stalled this year (and we were last year as well\u2026) because there\u2019s too much snow!!! I know, I should be happy that there\u2019s snow because it means that the glaciers might not ablate (shrink) this year\u2026 but then I can\u2019t go out in the field to collect my worms!! As much as I love being in the lab, I can\u2019t extract DNA until I get my worms!\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

We were able to get out and have some fun on the snow last Thursday. Peter is also advising Karina Caprez, who is working on the bacteria that grow in the snow or glacial surface, which the worms eat. So the three of us went up to Paradise Glacier on Mt. Rainier for a practice collection run (YES I BROUGHT SUNSCREEN THIS YEAR!!). It was beautiful and sunny all day! AND WE FOUND WORMS! Which was really exciting, because we didn\u2019t see any on my practice run last year. We were also able to pick up some bacteria for Karina AND counted the number of pecks per minute for a grey-crowned rosy finch. From information on the caloric content of the worms and the pecks per minute, we can calculate the amount of calories that the birds are getting from eating the ice worms. EXCITING!<\/p>\n

Looks like we\u2019re headed down to Oregon for the first real collection trip at some point next week! Keep your fingers crossed for snowmelt\u2026 \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Hi! I\u2019m Rachael! I\u2019m going into my second year of summer research. I work with Peter Wimberger on ice worm phylogenetics. Last year\u2019s highlight: finding the southernmost ice worm population (Lewis Glacier, South Sister, OR). This year, I\u2019m looking to … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":46,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1589","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-rachael-mallon-12"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/studentlife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1589","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\/46"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/studentlife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1589"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/studentlife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1589\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/studentlife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1589"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/studentlife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1589"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/studentlife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1589"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}