Processing in going good!

Today, we finished up processing the water samples for nitrates using the Cadmium Powder Pillow. We have Ammonium and Phosphates left to do with our water samples. It seems that we are still (*cough* Travis) (kidding!) filling up our plastic test tubes with too much water, because we had about 6 tubes crack on us from the freezer. But no worries, we just set them in glass jars to catch any water and then transferred those to new plastic tubes. Also, next on our agenda is to use the muffle furnace to separate the algae from the sand/sediment after we dried out our algae samples. Sometimes the algae was just too thin to separate. It seems like we are going right on track.