Oyster outplant projects lab survival assays

manchester-hardening
experimental design
Final lab survival assays of 10K, Effort A, and Effort E oyster outplants
Author

Ariana Huffmyer

Published

October 14, 2026

Overview

Over the next few weeks, students in the lab will be conducting final sampling and survival assays of outplanted oysters that were sampled from the field last week. I previously wrote a post with a general plan for this sampling.

This post details the experiments. I will describe the methods and continually update the log of survival assays as they happen.

All data will be stored on GitHub here for the 10K project and here for the Efforts A and E projects.

Lab survival sampling

Project methods and set up

Undergraduates in the lab, Jesse L and Maddy B are conducting this project in the lab. The following methods were written by Jesse Lowe. Methods are following our previous survival assays.

Round 1: Sept 28-30 (10K Round 1 of 2)

  • Experiment started on Sept 28 at 10:00am
  • Assessed 9/28 at 2:00pm
  • Assessed 9/29 at 10:00am
  • Assessed 9/29 at 3:30pm
  • Assessed 9/30 at 10:00am
  • Final assessment at 2:00pm

Data is recorded here

Ran in 24 oz cups, size will be increased due to size of oysters.

Round 2: Oct 1-3 (10K Round 2 of 2)

  • Experiment started on Oct 1 at 9:00 am
  • Assessed Oct 1 at 2:30pm
  • Assessed Oct 2 at 9:00am
  • Assessed Oct 2 at 2:30pm
  • Assessed Oct 3 at 9:00am
  • Assessed final Oct 3 at 4:30pm

Ran in 32 oz cups

Round 3: Oct 4-6 (Effort A Round 1 of 1)

  • Experiment started on Oct 4 at 10:30am
  • Assessed Oct 4 at 4:00pm
  • Assessed Oct 5 at 10:00am
  • Assessed Oct 5 at 2:30pm
  • Assessed Oct 6 at 9:30am
  • Assessed Oct 6 at 2:30pm
  • There was still decent survival, so assessed for one more day Oct 7 at 10:30pm
  • Final assessment Oct 7 at 2:30pm

Data is recorded here

Ran in 32 oz cups

Round 4: Oct 12-14 (Effort E Round 1 of 2)

  • Experiment started on Oct 12 at 10:30am
  • Assessed Oct 12 at 3:30pm
  • Assessed Oct 13 at 9:00am
  • Assessed Oct 13 at 3:00pm
  • Assessed Oct 14 at 10:30am
  • Final assessment Oct 14 at 3:00pm

Data is recorded here

Ran in 32 oz cups

Round 5: Oct 15-18 (Effort E Round 2 of 2)

  • Experiment started on Oct 15 at 11:30am
  • Assessed Oct 15 at 2:30pm
  • Assessed Oct 16 at 11:30am
  • Assessed Oct 16 at 2:30pm
  • Assessed Oct 17 at 10:30am
  • Assessed Oct 17 at 2:30am
  • Final assessment Oct 18 at 9:30am

Data is recorded here

Ran in 32 oz cups