POBR25 Day 6: Wellpinit Fairgrounds, Spokane Tribe of Indians 6-20-25

 

   Today is a heavy scientific day. We are currently entering data and this morning we did a group discussion centered around forming our hypothesis relating to the water samples we collected and the sites we visited. I am leaning towards the way agricultural practices and cattle impact the quality of the water we are sampling which are creeks where cattle roam and/or are based through an agriculture field. I used to get super intimidated by the excel work and the data entry, but this year has been super smooth. I have a good feeling our water samples will grow the bacteria's we are looking for. We incubated them on Wednesday and after 48 hours which is today, we did the pure culture isolation. All this is transferring the bacteria over from the incubation oven to the medium we will use to multiply the bacteria hopefully into the millions. These plates got put back into the oven to grow the cells. Then Sunday we will be able to look through the microscope and see what type of bacterial growth we find. Using this data is one of the recordings we will use to see if cows or farming will have some type of impacts on the creeks we are helping with. Besides the biology aspect of today we are getting into the poster section this afternoon.

 The crew doing inoculation the incubating our bacterial growth

 My two samples transported from my MAC and NUT-TTC paddles onto the plate for incubation 

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