Martin, Luisa, and I made the last trip to Bamfield over the previous three days and are now home for good. We finsihed up data collection and I gave a short talk to the students and staff at the Marine Station about our work. Now it is time for some analysis and then hopefully we[…]
Science Our first week in Bamfield was mostly practice with the various bits of equipment and familiarization with the divers. At the end of the first week we repeated our pre-testing measurements. I did a morning and afternoon blood draw on the participants and Luisa did FMD measurements with the ultrasound. Saturday afternoon, we hopped[…]
I recently came across a paper published in the Middlebury Journal of Microbiology examining the relationship between hemoglobin concentration ([Hb]) and a variety of parameters including gender, living altitude, and cross country ski race performance[1]. Unfortunately the paper appears to be primarily oriented toward validation of a new hemoglobin device, however it did get me[…]
Nothin but sun in the forecast. Before leaving for Bamfield, summer arrived in Squamish. We had 15 straight days without rain that we kicked off by celebrating Sarah’s birthday! We put the bbq to pretty good use as well. Sarah enjoying her birthday cake (that I made). We spent a few days out climbing including[…]
The dive research expedition to Bamfield is broken into four stages. Today was the initial baseline testing of the divers (or pre-testing) before they begin the dive series. At the end of the next three weeks we will collect data as well. In the mean time we will get the divers familarized with the research[…]