On November 16, 2013 the benthic group met up at the University of North Florida for a lab day in which we would attempt to identify the organisms, as best we could, that were found in the core samples. This was a very tedious process that took us around five to six hours to complete. Also the furthest we could classify the worms to was class. We didn't have the experience or microscopes to really give us the ability to classify them any further. I also personally had some trouble moving the worms from the petri-dish to a microscope slide, a few were mutilated in the process. Within the cores we also found a couple arthropods as well as a few gastropods. Once the organisms were counted and stored in the correct vials in 75% EtOH, we wrapped up our day discussing the final aspects of our project. We decided on a poster layout as well as how we were going to display a lot of our results. We also discussed how we were going to finalize our paper and who was going to work on which parts. I'm personally happy we are finished analyzing all of our samples and that now we only have to focus on the presentation side of our results. By next Saturday I believe we should have our results analyzed and should be wrapping focusing on finishing up our paper. So far we are making great progress and I'm interested in what our data is going to tell us.
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