Submitted by Anonymous on Mon, 02/27/2012 - 10:52

Hi Mrs Herrman, today I woke up at 4:30 to do some homework and various things. I have a love hate relationship with my sleep schedule. It's really great for getting work done but it's also extremely difficult to get up extremely early every day, and then go to school and then come home and do more work. On the bright side, I can get things done extremely fast because there is three hours in the morning to do nothing but productive work, this makes long term assignments rather easy to complete. The microcosm project sounds extremely interesting. They sound like little ecosystems with there own predators and prey conserved in a tiny world. I guess that is the definition of a microcosm. The snails seem like they are having a great time avoiding being eaten by the starfish, I would be willing to bet that ocean acidification would severely impair this organisms ability to defend itself by this advanced means. Hannah says hi: "How does the resist-ability of starfish compare to that of the snails in terms of raised pH level?" Kim Klima says: "HIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII!"

Anonymous

Hi there,I think I recognize this "voice" as Luke's. Is that right? I always woke up early to study in high school and college too. It works well for morning people! The microcosm project is really interesting. It's not exactly a miniature ecosystem, but I think you have the general idea. We don't have sea stars in the microcosms; we were looking at those for a future project. I am guessing you are right about the impacts of ocean acidification on the behavior of the snails and limpets. It will certainly be an interesting experiment.
Please say hi to Hannah and Kim. There's a good video about the effects of ocean acidification on sea stars here:
http://coseenow.net/blog/2010/12/ocean-acidification/
Luke has seen it before, so he can tell you more about it! We don't know yet about how the snails will be affected by LOWER pH (higher acidity), but Julie will be working hard to get data on that!
Cheers,
-Ms. Herrmann

Nell Herrmann

Hi there,I think I recognize this "voice" as Luke's. Is that right? I always woke up early to study in high school and college too. It works well for morning people! The microcosm project is really interesting. It's not exactly a miniature ecosystem, but I think you have the general idea. We don't have sea stars in the microcosms; we were looking at those for a future project. I am guessing you are right about the impacts of ocean acidification on the behavior of the snails and limpets. It will certainly be an interesting experiment.
Please say hi to Hannah and Kim. There's a good video about the effects of ocean acidification on sea stars here:
http://coseenow.net/blog/2010/12/ocean-acidification/
Luke has seen it before, so he can tell you more about it! We don't know yet about how the snails will be affected by LOWER pH (higher acidity), but Julie will be working hard to get data on that!
Cheers,
-Ms. Herrmann