My first week on the job has gone much better than I could have ever predicted. The Aquaculture department here at Wageningen was beyond welcoming in they I’ve learned about every research project currently running at the hatcheries, by different people working on each project. I was able to help a masters student with her project that examines coral consumption of artemia and also amino acid input to stimulate consumption.
She finished this week, but since she was not able to get all of the data her supervisor would like with the new acid input, they have passed the work on to me to complete next week. We exam 8 different corals, 4 types, complete water sample collections 4 times per hour with each set of 2 corals and then analyze the samples by counting the number of remaining artemia, to determine how many were consumed.
I was also able to help with a much bigger project that being sponsored by the government of the Netherlands. It is a 2 year project that concerns Nile tilapia fish farming and whether closed re-circulation system are causing growth retardation. With this project, we took many samples from 4 different systems, I worked with filtering samples to be prepared to determine COD and mineral levels. I found this project particularly interesting because we completed a small tilapia fish farming study during my program in Jamaica and this situation is much different, but does have similarities.
It has been very enjoyable so far working in the aquaculture department. Everybody in the hatchery is so welcoming to my presence and I had no idea I could learn so much in just 3 days.
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