My Lab Notebook

Today’s Summary Tested around 10 threads. Calling it an hour early because I am debilitatingly tired and I don’t want it to affect the work. A lot of threads breaking today, at first I assumed it was my fault but that doesn’t seem to be the case. I think the... [Read More]

Today’s Summary Tested 22 threads. A lot came off cohesively again. Was a fairly successful session, not to many thread breakages or mishaps. In a week or two the samples will all be tested. At that point we will convene and assess to determine if we should go back to... [Read More]

Today’s Summary Tested 17 threads. A lot came off cohesively today. 1/3 of the 10/19 samples are now done. Was a fairly successful session, not to many thread breakages or mishaps. Will be back tomorrow. 3 hours (1-4 pm)

Today’s Summary Tested 16 threads. A lot of them broke. One sample (G26) had all three threads brake during the force test. The adhesive part stayed on the sheet. There were no other threads to test on this sample. Also two times a little bit of the mica came off... [Read More]

Copied the following procedure from what Monica wrote in her lab notebook just so I have it more accessible. I may also add a few things. This is for the byssal threads data will be logged on this spreadsheet [Read More]