Finding Aphaenogaster

Went out to Centennial Woods today with Andrew and Mike, and after about 30 minutes of searching found an Aphaenogaster colony! In exactly the conditions Andrew described - rotting log that was slightly moist.

As we’re about two inches behind normal rainfall levels in VT at this time of year, conditions were rather dry and Andrew thinks this may be why we were only able to find one colony (though Nick mentioned that Centennial Woods never had many Aphaenogaster colonies).

Andrew and Mike collecting Aphaenogaster in Centennial Woods

Meeting

Who: Joel Parker, Skyler Resendez (SUNY Plattsburgh), SHC, NG, AN, JSG, Kerri Pinder Why: REU

Discussed research plans for Skyler’s summer REU project

Computer

Add xrandr settings to /etc/profile so second monitor resolution is persistent

xrandr --newmode "1440x900_59.90" 106.29 1440 1520 1672 1904 900 901 904 932 -HSync +Vsync
xrandr --addmode DP1 1440x900_59.90
xrandr --output DP1 --mode 1440x900_59.90

Medicago

Continuing revisions to genomic estimation of heritability manuscript