I was in Israel to conduct some field experiments for my project. The full account for the summer can be read here: Coastal IRES.
But for a quick recab:
I spent two months in Eilat setting up, maintaining and running two biological experiments.
One was with coral fragments. Grown in different treatments, I hope to see if there is any measurable difference in their growth.
The treatments was either 10% higher salinity than ambient, 10% higher salinity+antiscalants or control. These treatments should mimic the higher end of discharge from a desalination plant, and I wish to see if this would cause differences in the growth and health of the corals.
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| Coral fragments in aquarium |
The other was same concept, but with phytoplankton:
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| Bottles of phytoplankton floating in pool to keep similar temperature. |
