{"id":3829,"date":"2019-08-25T16:02:15","date_gmt":"2019-08-25T17:02:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/bremen\/?p=3829"},"modified":"2023-12-04T16:06:32","modified_gmt":"2023-12-04T17:06:32","slug":"ecotoxicology-and-lab-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/bremen\/2019\/08\/25\/ecotoxicology-and-lab-work\/","title":{"rendered":"Ecotoxicology and lab work"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><strong>by Karen Hoang &#8217;20<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">I took \u2018Ecotoxicology,\u2019 which was a Masters course that was taught in English. The class itself was very straightforward with lectures, a test, and a group presentation. The lab component of the course actually took place later in the year, but Prof. Juliane Filser was kind enough to organize a lab assistant position for me so that I could still take the course for full credit. I helped 3 different researchers with their respective projects and I got to use various equipment and facilities around Uni Bremen. I counted tiny insects, prepared soil samples, and conducted literature reviews.<br \/>\nThe project that I worked on the most was with Dr. Moira McKee. At the Biologischer Garten (biological garden), we maintained preexisting macrocosms and planned\/installed aquatic microcosms (think of it as a tiny simulation of a lake\/pond but in a bucket).\u00a0 Some of my favorite times in Bremen were taking those short sunny walks over to the Bio Garten with a basket of equipment, recording data and observations I collected in the quiet garden I often had to myself. The times that I did run into people there, they were very kind; one grower even gifted me a large plant! I sometimes had lunch with the Ecotoxicology lab team, had coffee and ice cream breaks, and I enjoyed practicing German with them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Karen Hoang &#8217;20 I took \u2018Ecotoxicology,\u2019 which was a Masters course that was taught in English. The class itself was very straightforward with lectures, a test, and a group presentation. The lab component of the course actually took place &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/bremen\/2019\/08\/25\/ecotoxicology-and-lab-work\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4340,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[140677],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3829","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-student-testimonials"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/bremen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3829","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/bremen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/bremen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/bremen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4340"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/bremen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3829"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/bremen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3829\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/bremen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3829"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/bremen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3829"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/bremen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3829"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}