When |
Who |
What |
At first class |
Ferris |
- Inform students of field trip requirement as a component of the
class.
- Poll students for most convenient available Saturday
|
After first class |
Ferris |
Reserve vehicles |
After first class |
Ferris |
Contact growers: Stanton Lange, maybe Fondse,
David Viguie of Timothy and Viguie Farms (707-678-2869, 530-681-1621), Stan
Lester |
After first class |
Westerdahl |
Contact Farm Advisors |
Week preceding |
Ferris + TA |
Sampling Equipment:
- Oakfield tubes
- Veihmeyer tubes plus mallets
- Auger
- Power auger with gas (25:1 gas:2-cycle oil)
- Shovel
- Penetrometer
- Tool chest
- Plastic bags
- Labels
- Marking pens
- 2 ice chests
- Water jug + cups
- First Aid Kit
- Call Robbie at Dawsons re lunch schedule 707-678-2067
|
Week preceding |
Ferris + TA |
Extraction Equipment:
- 6 x 500 ml beakers for decanting
- 2 x 20-mesh top sieves
- 2 x 100-mesh sieves for Xiphinema
- 1 x 60-mesh sieves for cysts
- 2 x 325-mesh sieves for
Criconemoides
- 2 buckets
- Field centrifuge and hand centrifuge
- Centrifuge tubes for both and tube rack
- 1L x 1M sucrose solution (not any stronger)\
- 2 x spatulas
- 2 x 2L Ehrlenmeyer flasks
- 2 funnels with bicycle tube
- 1 wide-neck funnel with mesh for soil sifting
- 2 ring stands
- 2 x 150ml beakers
- 10 counting dishes
- 5 petri dishes
- 3 wash bottles
- microscope slides and coverslips
- fingernail polish
- 5 nematode picks
- Kimwipes
|
Week preceding |
Ferris + TA + Westerdahl |
Field Laboratory:
- 2 extension cords
- 2 power strips
- 2 folding tables or table-tops with legs
- 1 compound microscopes (check optics)
- 1 traveling microscope
- 3 dissecting microscopes, Wild + another (check optics)
- 5 microscope lights
- 2 wind deflectors (boxes or half buckets)
|
Afternoon before |
Ferris + TA |
Pick up vehicles and load |
On return |
Ferris + Westerdahl |
Unload and return vehicles |
Following Monday |
Ferris + TA |
Clean up and store equipment |
During Field Trip |
Ferris |
- Handout outline
- Introduce growers and farm advisors
- Discuss sampling and stratification
- Discuss target-specific extraction procedures
-
- Reminders to students:
- Safety with
equipment
- Clean
equipment between sites
- Sample from
where nematodes are likely to be located - root zones and
susceptible cultivars in non-fumigated sites
- Achieve pooled samples by compositing cores from same sites by
different students and using subsamples
- Consider division of labor - samplers, extractors, identifiers and
nematode mounters
- Determine and record amount of root on coarse screen as an
indicator of whether the target site was reached.
|
During Field Trip |
Westerdahl |
Circulate among vehicles and discuss:
- What is an Extension Specialist and how did I get to be one?
- What are the important issues that need new information and
developmental research?
- Some examples of how I collaborate with the other faculty.
- How I deliver information/education to end users.
- Some of my current research projects.
- Major nematode problems of crops and locations within my
jurisdiction.
- Other major nematode problems in California.
|
During Field Trip |
Ferris |
Circulate among vehicles and discuss:
- Major and career goals of each student
- Ideas for Term Project
|
After Field Trip |
Ferris |
Letter of Appreciation to Farm Advisors |