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Sarah Tanja

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January 20, 2026

Date Title Subtitle Reading Time
May 6, 2025 Master’s Thesis Committee Meeting #3 Progress check-in on analyses 4 min
December 13, 2024 Submitted NGS 16SrRNA sequences to NCBI SRA Backing up raw sequences from mim_c 4 min
November 4, 2024 Backup your work using rsync 3 min
 
November 4, 2024 Make a secret tunnel use .ssh/config file to connect to a remote server 2 min

October 8, 2024 Submitting NGS sequences to NCBI SRA Backing up raw sequences from Azenta 2 min

October 8, 2024 Transfer data files from Azenta to a local server Getting raw NGS fastq sequence files off Azenta Genewiz server to a local server using Command Line and SFTP 2 min
 
October 7, 2024 Bioinformatics Pipeline Roadmap Transcriptomics analysis of RNA-seq data from embryonic development of Montipora capitata rice corals exposed to PVC leachate 3 min
 
October 7, 2024 Summary of previous research on microplastic leachate exposure in marine invertebrate embryonic development In sea urchin and mussel model organisms 12 min

Figure 12. Taken from Okubo et al. 2013

September 30, 2024 Ontogenetic Development of Montipora capitata   1 min
 
September 9, 2024 Grants & Fellowships A running list of grants and fellowships to keep an eye on 1 min

September 9, 2024 Nikon scope pictures annotation & data collection Annotating images of embryonic development of Montipora capitata rice corals exposed to PVC leachate 3 min
 
September 8, 2024 Timeline & Goals Planning   1 min
 
September 6, 2024 Statistics for embryo scope data Exploring data from embryonic development of Montipora capitata rice corals exposed to PVC leachate 17 min
 
September 3, 2024 Nikon scope pictures & slide preservation protocol For capturing embryonic development of Montipora capitata rice corals exposed to PVC leachate 3 min
 
August 26, 2024 26-Aug-2024 Embryo RNA Extractions   5 min
 
August 23, 2024 23-Aug-2024 Embryo RNA Extractions   6 min
 
August 21, 2024 21-Aug-2024 Embryo RNA Extractions   6 min
 
August 20, 2024 20-Aug-2024 Embryo RNA Extractions   5 min
 
August 19, 2024 19-Aug-2024 Embryo RNA Extractions   5 min
 
August 16, 2024 16-Aug-2024 Embryo RNA Extractions   5 min
August 15, 2024 15-Aug-2024 Embryo RNA Extractions   5 min
August 14, 2024 14-Aug-2024 Embryo RNA Extractions   5 min
August 13, 2024 13-Aug-2024 Embryo RNA Extractions   6 min
August 12, 2024 12-Aug-2024 Embryo RNA Extractions   4 min
August 9, 2024 M. Capitata Embryo DNA/RNA Extractions Protocol   16 min
 
July 10, 2024 HOBO logger calibrations Two loggers per temperature bath (2 ambient, 2 hot) 12 min

July 9, 2024 Bench Incubation Lab bench records and environmental logs for the development of Montipora capitata embryos exposed to PVC leachate 15 min

July 9, 2024 Coral collections & tank acclimation protocol For spawning of Montipora capitata rice corals 6 min
 
July 9, 2024 Spawn night protocol For embryonic development of Montipora capitata rice corals 12 min
 
July 9, 2024 Experiment Log   1 min

May 23, 2024 Extracting & measuring chlorophyll a & c2 concentrations … from an anemone-hosted symbiotic dinoflagellate using a ThermoFischer Nanodrop 2000c 12 min
May 3, 2024 Single stressor leachate exposure summary A 48 hour exposure to polyvinyl chloride (PVC) leachate and to aged polypropylene (PP) leachate 5 min

May 2, 2024 All about the aggregating anemone What, where, who studies it, how, and why! 10 min
 
April 23, 2024 Anemone Leachate Heat Experiment Recipe   1 min

April 22, 2024 How to make a custom respirometry chamber   5 min

April 15, 2024 Puget Sound Microplastics   5 min
 
March 30, 2024 Field collection at Constellation Park, Alki, West Seattle   4 min

March 26, 2024 Leachate preparation & dilution protocol Modified from the lab protocol of Dr. Francesco Saliu and Valerio Isa 8 min

March 18, 2024 Field collection at Owens Beach, Point Defiance Park, Tacoma   7 min
February 22, 2024 Daily Lab Log Enter at your peril; This one is for me, not you 51 min

February 9, 2024 Experimental tank setup   3 min

February 5, 2024 Measuring photosynthesis Understanding & Operating the Walz Diving-PAM-II 4 min
February 5, 2024 Tides & WX Station Data How to use the rnoaa package 6 min

January 2, 2024 Anemone Project Planning   9 min
December 6, 2023 Pseudoreplication & Control How to design a manipulation experiment 3 min
December 6, 2023 How I created & maintain my open lab notebook using Quarto, Git & RStudio   1 min
November 29, 2023 Phthalates around the World   9 min

November 19, 2023 Master’s Thesis Committee Meeting #2 Options for addressing the need for a solvent control 13 min
 
November 19, 2023 Master’s Thesis Progress   5 min
 
November 14, 2023 Making PAE treatments and controls   5 min
 
November 5, 2023 Workflow with Git For all the times I accidentally commit a file that is too big 6 min

August 23, 2023 Dual DNA & RNA Extraction Protocol   21 min

Nanodrop plot results

August 22, 2023 The RNA Inhibitors A tragic saga of continued troubles 15 min
 
August 10, 2023 Getting Started with QIIME2 and Jupyter Lab Working from a Windows OS and connecting via VPN to a remote server 6 min
 
July 27, 2023 Target Journals for Submitting Manuscripts   2 min
 
June 22, 2023 Phthalate exposure to coral embryos methods M. capitata embryo development and EPA 506 pthalate mix 1 acute exposure experimental methods 9 min
 
June 8, 2023 Choosing 16S Primers for M. capitata microbiome   2 min

May 23, 2023 DNA/RNA Extractions Overview   4 min

Invalid Date Environmental Landscape of an Intertidal Heat Wave Using NOAA National Data Buoy Center (NDBC) to map air and water temperatures in Commencement Bay, Tacoma, WA, during the June 2021 Puget Sound heat wave 3 min
April 25, 2023 Dual DNA & RNA Extractions for Montipora capitata coral   25 min

Figure 2. ‘Weathering processes of poorly reversible plastic pollution in the environment.Weathering proceeds along two co-occurring and synergistic pathways offragmentation and release of chemicals, and biofouling and oxidation.’ from Macleod et al. 2021

February 6, 2023 Master’s Thesis Committee Meeting #1   20 min
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