Repurposing
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The secret fieldwork tool: a dog rescue harness
During my PhD, I collaborated on a project involving the need to assess water quality and take water samples – one would think this seems simple enough, and in theory it should have been. Where the issues arose were: 1) everything looks flat on a non-descript map, and 2) our lab had field gear designed…
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Establishing the leech beach – keeping them on the sand instead of in it!
I am a firm believer that for each scientific inquiry, there is an ideal species to test it. I refrain from saying “perfect species” because there will always be one facet or one characteristic of that species that will throw a wrench into the plan. I had a beautiful experimental system to answer a very…