Ballast Water and Baby Fish

[aryana_filker]

Yesterday we ran the first true, real ballast water analyse. We drowned in work, literally. I don't know how we shall analyse samples in a time window of 24 hours, when the samples arrive at noon in our lab and are then already about ten hours old. Two workers need about 8 hours to do 2/3 of all analyses. Huh. What to do with the last third without

Comments

[jaelle_n_gilla]

a) sounds like you should check delivery times or agree on a wider time window. Either they deliver within a few hours after sampling, or you need to set experiments up to be done within 48 hours instead of 24. It's not worth risking the whole project because of this.

b) awwwwww, baby fish! I never really understood why people kept aquariums, but reading your reports on it I am getting an idea now :-)

[aryana_filker]

Problem is that the damn guidelined won't allow a wider time window.
*sigh*
Wanna kick the whole project before it kills me.

[lisande]

I'm so sorry for you! Wish I could do something for you...

[aryana_filker]

:) Things are getting better, soo today's post! :)
Damn relieved, I can tell you!