Profile

• Time Zone

  Eastern

  
  
• Organization

  Utica College

  
  
• Role

  Scientist Mentor: I will mentor teams of students online

  
  
• Research Interests (300 words)

  My current research projects are in plant ecology, conservation biology, ecosystem ecology, and organic agriculture. I am also a beekeeper, so I have interest in plant-pollinator interactions.

  
  
• Profile Question 1

  What was the first science experiment you ever designed? How did it turn out?

  
  
• Profile Question 2

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

  
  
• Profile Question 3

  What is the coolest thing you have discovered or learned about plants?

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

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Recent Posts

The Mountaineer's Sara Scanga Nov 28, 2018

It's pretty interesting to see that different colored microbes grew when treated with salt versus not treated with salt.  Did you see this on both the radish and corn plates?  In other words, was it consistent across both plant…

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It's pretty interesting to see that different colored microbes grew when treated with salt versus not treated with salt.  Did you see this on both the radish and corn plates?  In other words, was it consistent across both plant species?

When you say "the control plate had 2.54 cm of growth" is that the mean growth (average growth) across all of your radish seeds?

What will you be measuring weekly on your sprouted plants?  Height, number of leaves, size of leaves, width of stem, etc.?  

Dr. Scanga

The Mountaineer's Sara Scanga Nov 16, 2018

Woohoo!  Great news on the sprouts!!!!

I figure that if your seeds are sprouting, you already have seed germination data from your paper plate experiment? Did you start recording your data in a data sheet? (Like Excel or Google Sheets, or…

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Woohoo!  Great news on the sprouts!!!!

I figure that if your seeds are sprouting, you already have seed germination data from your paper plate experiment? Did you start recording your data in a data sheet? (Like Excel or Google Sheets, or even a handwritten data sheet?)

What will you do with the plants over the Thanksgiving break so that they don't dry out?

The Mountaineer's Sara Scanga Nov 12, 2018

I hope you will too!  I have been watering some corn seeds over the last week, and they keep drying out really quickly because they're near the heater!  I had to cover them up with a clear plastic dome so that they won't dry out…

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I hope you will too!  I have been watering some corn seeds over the last week, and they keep drying out really quickly because they're near the heater!  I had to cover them up with a clear plastic dome so that they won't dry out between the daily waterings.  

Keep me posted on how they're doing!  Fingers crossed!

Dr. Scanga