Scientists Conduct First Census of Viruses and Bacteria Living in Florida Springs
Kristen Kusek, University of South Florida, via Phys.org / 4/17/20
The USF CMS team, whose field and lab work was led by USF PhD student Kema Malki, used an inflatable raft to retrieve samples in May-June 2017 from five springs across northern Florida.
In the raft are Malki and USF St. Petersburg student Paige Boleman taking samples at Ichetucknee Springs. Credit: University of South Florida
Uh-huh. You don’t say.
Reminds me of a joke; I think I read it in Reader’s Digest in the last century.
Geology prof is lecturing his graduate class telling how they used to look for oil in the ocean. “We use to have a grad student throw dynamite from the back of a boat and have a sensor capture the reflection from the ocean floor, but nowadays we do it safer.”
Voice from the back: “You use an undergraduate?”
Couldn’t they just get them to fill out the online form?
Q: “What’d you do at your summer job?”
A1: “Tied bricks at a plant in Statesville.” (Should have; wish I had, oh well.)
A2: “Got sunburned getting water samples in this little dinky raft.”