Fish 499 Undergraduate Research Opportunity  (1-3 credits, Spring  Qtr. 2012 [unpaid] with potential to continue during the summer or next academic year). CREATE YOUR OWN BIOSPHERES!

Study Closed Ecological Systems involving nutrients, algae, and Daphnia (grazers) to study a relationship of your interest.  Other students have explored the effects of temperature, light intensity, light duration, nutrient composition such as C, N, P relationships, vitamins, trace metals, cellulose, and pesticide stresses on these simple aquatic communities.  Our laboratory’s current research is on the pressure and O2 production, using gas laws, etc. The ratio of liquid to air volume is a variable that needs study because nutrient rich media allow excessive amounts of pressure to develop that can result in leakage.  If you want to see some of the previous student projects, you can examine the posters outside of our laboratory, 224 Fisheries Teaching and Research Building (224 FTR,  1140 NE Boat Street). There is the potential of making a presentation at the 2013 Undergraduate Research Symposium.

If interested, please send me (Dr. Frieda B. Taub, Professor Emeritus taub@u.washington.edu ) an e-mail with a paragraph or two of your interest and your informal transcript as an attachment.  We should meet for a discussion and if we agree on a project, you should be prepared to submit a Fish 499 application, due 2 weeks before the quarter begins http://depts.washington.edu/safs/pdfs/499_form.pdf

Frieda B. Taub, Professor Emeritus
taub@u.washington.edu