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Past Progress

We completed our UTF proposal and are currently waiting to hear back from the grant organization. The total of the grant was projected to be approximately $2000. We will organize our presentation in the coming week.

The scope of the project has widened in regards to the amount of data we plan to gather once the grant comes through. Two team members will focus on gathering samples from Lake Washington while the other two members will focus on collecting samples from drains and water basins that empty into lake Washington. These two areas of focus will provide the team with enough information to hypothesize where the majority of micoplastics come from in lake Washington.

On Friday, the 28^th of January, Debra utilized the organic chemistry lab to finish processing the [name] bay sample Julie brought us.

Future Plans

This coming Friday we will go to the organic chemistry lab on the North seattle campus to process the water samples collected by Debra and Moira from the local drains for the purpose of becoming familiar with the technique designed to extract microplastics from water samples. The plan is be there from 9am until the drying stage is reached in the procedure.

In the next two weeks we plan to fully lay out the map for sample sites. Already planning on taking samples from Lake Washington’s primary inflow and outflow sites, additional site will be chosen based on calculations relating to the physical properties of Lake Washington, i.e. winds, shorelines, natural currents, etc…