COVID Diaries: Steph's keeping afloat with her HRP

Much like Aimee from last week's blog, Steph has been keeping us up to date with her dissertation project through social media! Last time we spoke to Steph, she had established her working title of 'Quantifying plastics and connecting possible drivers of pollution within a river' and was about to set sail with her nets to capture data and any plastic materials. We are following Steph's updates, seeing how she is adapting to the changing circumstances but striving to make the best of an unprecidented situation.

 

 

 

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Hoorah! They Float! Built and tested my Dissertation Devices over the last week! I’m excited to put them in them in the River Corve on the next couple of weeks #plasticpollution #mantatrawl #DIY @harperadamsuni Thank you to @stevejhawk @hawksworthnebot and @colin.papaboat for all your help!

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We’re Off!! #Mini #Manta #Trawl Nets are in! The river has finally got back to normal levels and the weather has cleared! Now to (Im)patiently wait to see what I collect! @HarperAdamsUni @SWLecLC #RiverCorve @ShropsWildlife #RiverPlastic #Microplastic #WomenInScience #womeninSTEM pic.twitter.com/FQ7Alka21C

— Stephanie Poole (@Stephloupoole) March 7, 2020

Another day spent surveying the #RiverCorve for #plastics in the river. Due to rain over night the river was higher and had more debris! Looking forward to labs tomorrow. Let’s see what I find! #riverplastic #WomenInSTEM @HarperAdamsUni @SWLecLC #HRP #WomenInScience pic.twitter.com/5tsa0bkcoa

— Stephanie Poole (@Stephloupoole) March 8, 2020

#coronawontstopus from finishing our #degreesthatmatter #finalyear #SunshineSongs #StayHomeStaySafe https://t.co/zCB1WAW5Te

— Stephanie Poole (@Stephloupoole) March 22, 2020

 

 

 

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#covid_19 won’t stop me from completing my #HRP data analysis just because the @harperadamsuni Labs are closed doesn’t mean I stop too. Set up a mock lab in the kitchen and a drying room in the office. #workfromhome #sciencefromhome #stayhome #womeninscience #plastics #microplastics

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Look what just arrived in the post!Calibration slide to help me identify the sizes of my plastic found so far! The pictures depicts a size range of each small division as 0.01mm. So slide 2 is 0.2mm big. #ScienceFromHome #WomenInSTEM #microplastics @HarperAdamsUni @SWLecLC #HRP pic.twitter.com/lKH2av5M1N

— Stephanie Poole (@Stephloupoole) March 28, 2020

 

 

 

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Nerding out this afternoon! My new calibration slide came through the post today! Making sizing my #microplastics so much easier!! Thanks @colin.papaboat for the present! #HRP #plasticpollution #riversampling #microscopephotography #sciencefromhome #covid19wontstopme #womeninscience #womeninstem

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