Community Connection
For my community connection, I attended: Walk for Cystic Fibrosis. In witch I walked to raise awareness about CF, met a CF patient, and learned about the effects, as well as well as ways of coping with these effects. For example, because a CF patient's digestive system is inefficient, they need to consume about three times the calories of an average person, as well as take vitamin supplements, to be able to absorb sufficient nutrients to survive.
Crime scene investigation
In my crime scene report with Oli, we investigated the theoretical murder of Nathan Harren. Nathans "corpse" was "found" on a hiking trail in the San Juans by a dog. The skeletal remains, witch were unidentified at the time, were examined using forensic methods in order to determine the gender, and later identity of the victim. The victim was identified as Nathan Harren through the combined use of skeletal analysis, forensic odentology, as well as forensic entomology.
After Nathan, the victim was identified, we needed to determine the cause of death. Through the use of ballistics we were able to confirm a bullet in the back of Nathans head to be the cause of death.
After the cause of death was determined it was necessary to identify our theoretical killer we attempted to accomplish this through the identification of blood under the victim's fingernails. First blood typing was used to narrow the list of suspects, however when this did not succeed it was necessary to run DNA profiling on the blood samples. Once again, this was fruitless, and our investigation became a cold case.
In my opinion, this was a fun project. It was learn about the tools forensic investigators use to solve cases. Still, its disappointing that we ended up with a cold case.
After Nathan, the victim was identified, we needed to determine the cause of death. Through the use of ballistics we were able to confirm a bullet in the back of Nathans head to be the cause of death.
After the cause of death was determined it was necessary to identify our theoretical killer we attempted to accomplish this through the identification of blood under the victim's fingernails. First blood typing was used to narrow the list of suspects, however when this did not succeed it was necessary to run DNA profiling on the blood samples. Once again, this was fruitless, and our investigation became a cold case.
In my opinion, this was a fun project. It was learn about the tools forensic investigators use to solve cases. Still, its disappointing that we ended up with a cold case.
Monkey Meal Planning
For this project, it was necessary to create a simple recipe for chimp reserve, during this project we learned about Lucy, a chimp used as a social experiment on the topic of humanity, to see my response to the lesson, see my blog. My recipe is below, it is a diabetic meal for a chimpanzee.
Dissection
For the dissection project I dissected a dogfish shark, here is a picture:
DNs project reflection
For the DNS project I was tasked to measure the biodiversity of the DNS property. This was accomplished through the mapping of individual squares, known as veg plots, and the counting of species within said veg plots. As a class we were also tasked to carry out mark and recapture on the local leopard frog species. This was done in order to gauge their population size against the invasive bullfrog species. Any invasive bull frogs caught (none) would have been removed from the environment subsequently, and humanely gassed to death. I adequately fulfilled my role in these two tasks, however this does not reflect in my grade. Because of my poor performance on my executive summary, I ended up with a bad grade. I hope to learn from this experience and take my new knowledge with me to the next project.
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