Profile

• Time Zone

  Atlantic Standard Time

  
  
• Organization

  University of the Virgin Islands

  
  
• Role

  Scientist Mentor: I will mentor teams of students online

  
  
• Research Interests (300 words)

  I have been researching the population genetics of rare Virgin Islands plants since 2000. Current research projects include population genetic structure of Virgin Islands’ endemic plants, such as Erythrina eggersii (cock’s spur), mangrove trees such as Rhizophora mangle (red mangrove). I am currently working on a genome-wide genotyping study of the invasive seagrass, Halophila stipulacea.

  
  
• Profile Question 1

  What is your favorite plant? Why?

  
  
• Answer the question you selected for profile question 1 here (300 words):

  Solanum conocarpum is a rare native plant in the Virgin Islands. I love this plant because it is beautiful and amazingly hardy- all of the seedlings we have planted into gardens in order to increase its numbers are thriving. Native plants make excellent landscaping material!

  
  
• Profile Question 2

  What lessons have you learned in your career about how science works?

  
  
• Answer the question you selected for profile question 2 here (300 words):

  Science is an ongoing process (it is not a pile of facts to memorize). Some parts of this process can be very frustrating (such as when your research methods are not working), but it is worth it. If you see th project through, you always find out something interesting and important in the end.

  
  
• Profile Question 3

  Can you describe your attitude toward science when you were in high school?

  
  
• Answer the question you selected for profile question 3 here (300 words):

  I loved biology and chemistry at that stage (okay, I still do)- it was so wonderful to find out how things work. I had a lot of trouble with physics, though. Physics just was not intuitive for me. However, my understanding of physics has helped me understand biology even better.

  
  
• Availability

  I am currently available for mentoring, please send me team match invitations

  
  
• In addition to English, I am comfortable communicating with students in the following languages:

  (not set)

  
  
• Capacity: How many teams at a time are you comfortable working with?

  2

  
  

Recent Posts

project 12 Alice Stanford Dec 2, 2021

Wow, that is a very dramatic result! I would not have guessed that vinegar would be so much worse than baking powder. How much baking powder was mixed into the water? Did you measure the pH of the vinegar, the water, and the baking soda water?

project 12 Alice Stanford Nov 20, 2021

How many plants do you have? I hope you have several plants for each treatment group so you can have some replication! However, I only see three plants in your picture and you have three treatment groups, so ... maybe not? Also, you absolutely need…

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How many plants do you have? I hope you have several plants for each treatment group so you can have some replication! However, I only see three plants in your picture and you have three treatment groups, so ... maybe not? Also, you absolutely need to have a control group (i.e., plain water). So if you only have three plants, then you should choose two of your experimental treatments and use plain water for the third plants. Or, if you have lots of plants, you can divide them into four groups.

 

project 12 Alice Stanford Nov 12, 2021

That sounds interesting. What are the different types of water? What kind of plants are you testing? Also, are they seeds, young plants or mature plants?