in-situ nutrients manipulation device

After a few months of brainstorming, Brendan (the School of Environment technician) made and assemble the in-situ nutrients manipulation device! He even managed to test it out, working out the working beginning and resultant volume of nutrients based on the amount of PSI input. We were really excited about this because no many students build any device for their research. Most of them just use whatever is available. Unfortunately, this will not be part of my research anymore. There are so many work involved already, even without the eutrophication portion! However, I may just bring this device to Taiwan in June and test it out in the field :). There is definitely someone out there in need of this device!

PhD proposal FINALLY approved!

It has been a long one month since my PhD proposal presentation. It turns out that my committee are not the most well versed in microbiology, hydrodynamics, nor coral biology. I respected their wishes to certain changes in the proposal. My reasoning is that they probably seen enough PhD students to know what they are talking about. However, there are some points which I was very clear that I am not going to change, and I have the full support from my supervisor, co-supervisor and microbiology-advisor. Today, received this email, and now, I can start working on the fun stuffs!

"Dear Sonny

The SoE PGRC has now considered your revised PhD proposal and consulted with your main supervisor (Paul Kench).

I am pleased to inform you that the committee is happy with the modifications made to the proposal.

You will need to submit the proposal, together with the formal endorsement of your supervisors, when your provisional extension expires.

Best of luck with the next steps of the research Sonny!

Anthony"