Today I am starting out with cutting and peeling the stickers off the tacos that usually hold chlorophyll samples and then putting them back into the taco bag to be reused later.
Done with all 300 tacos!
These digest tubes of TKN are mixed by a Vortex Mixer and put in a digest block to then be analyzed for total organic nitrogen.
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The purpose of spinning and putting the TKN samples into the digest block is to change the total organic nitrogen to ammonia.
Because this is my last day, I had to get a picture of the amazing crew that mentored me! 
CAAE gave me an amazing 8 days; hopefully, I can go back a couple times during the summer and help around the lab. I’m so grateful I had the opportunity to meet all of these lovely people and work in their profession. I learned an awful lot in a short amount of time, but it was 100% worth it and a really cool work experience that I would recommend to anyone interested in this line of work.