Experimental test of promoter reporter system’s activity: insertion of the T7 promoter into the pGFP-S12 plasmid to restore GFP gene expression
Promoter reporter system monitors the gene expression in many organisms. The reporter gene helps to identify molecular events and gene transcription, which promotes the many research of the molecular- basis studies of different diseases and new technology on drug development.
GEOB 307--Discrepancies Among the Range Maps for Rubus armeniacus and Sturnus vulgaris
The species range map is the assessment of species distribution and dispersal patterns in a particular location. This map will provide information that helps to connect the geographical displacement with ecological, climate, and environmental factors. The species range map uses metadata, experimental results, ecological modeling, and taxonomic experts’ prediction to create a visual explanation of why species are found in particular habitats.
GEOB 372 Cartography Project--Precipitation and Temperature Influence on Dispersal of Garlic Mustard
GEOB 372 Cartography final project. --Process and visualize data from a public online database
Examination of phytoplankton’s performance to abiotic condition changes as a water quality indicator
Phytoplankton can be bioindicators to assess water quality in freshwater ecosystems. In this study, phytoplankton biomass responses to temperature, sunlight, water body size, and water body connectivity were evaluated to justify their sensitivity as the water quality indicator. 65434 observations from LAGOS-NE were analyzed to show the correlation between phytoplankton biomass and abiotic factors.
Simulating Population Growth Rates of Alliaria petiolata in Lower British Columbia
Final Group Project with Elana Shi and Urim Lim --Alliaria petiolata, known as garlic mustard, has colonized the North American East Coast and Midwestern regions at relatively high concentrations, and poses dangers to forest biodiversity and productivity. In this study, we conduct a meta-analysis on a small set of available experimental literature on Alliaria petiolata to try understand the currently stunted invasion into lower British Columbia.
City Trees’ Negative Influence on Nearby Houses
ArcGIS application on urban planning. 2019 Winter Project by Tingfang (Tina) Zheng
The Investigation of Parasympathetic System mediated Uterine Smooth Muscle Contraction
This experiment investigates the influences of the parasympathetic nervous system on uterine contractions and the effect of muscarinic receptor in the uterus smooth muscle cells on parasympathetic response. This question was explored by testing the influence of different drugs (ACh, atropine and curare) on isolated rat (Mus musculus) uterus in muscle bath, the muscle contraction was recorded by the isotonic transducer.
GEOB 270 LAB 3 Storm Surge: Spatial Analysis, Visualization, Editing
As the geological and climate change events influences many parts of the world, the flooding and waves recently in Tofino on Vancouver Island also affect Metro Vancouver area badly. This series of maps provides the GIS analysis of the risk of flooding or storm surge on schools and roads in Metro Vancouver area in 2018.
GEOB 270 LAB 4 Housing Affordability: working with Census Data; tables, joins, classification, visualization
In this lab, publishable maps on cost of housing in Metro Vancouver is produced based on Census Tracts (CT) and Census Dissemination Areas (DA) data from Statistics Canada , and how this has changed over the last 5 years, from 2011 to 2016.
GEOB 270 LAB 5 Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA)
The Garibaldi at Squamish project is a proposed year-round destination mountain resort on Brohm Ridge, 15 km north of Squamish on Highway 99. In this lab, the different environmental impact of building a ski resort will be analyzed.
GEOB 270 Final Project on Vancouver Island Tsunami Vulnerability
Due to the recent climate change, the weathering events have influenced the world in many aspects including flooding, earthquake and volcano eruption etc. Among those, the threat of the potential tsunami that hitting the West coast of Canada has been loomed for years. Therefore a group project was designed to investigate the risk of tsunami on two very representative cities--Tofino and Ucluelet.