Session 2011-070 with East Bay School For Boys

Application

The School

The Class

The Project

Miscellaneous

Live Session Transcript

Connected on 2011-09-12 11:00:00 from Alameda, California, United States

• 10:01am
• Bugscope Team sample is just coming out of the sputter coater...
• Bugscope Team now you can see the sample in the 'scope in the CCD view
• Bugscope Team the sample is pumping down
• 10:06am

• Bugscope Team now we're waiting for the vacuum to get better; then we will start making presets for today's session with the East Bay School for Boys
• Bugscope Team almost there...
• 10:16am

• 10:21am

• 10:27am

• 10:32am

• 10:37am

• 10:43am

• Bugscope Team alright! we are ready to roll!
• 11:00am
• Bugscope Team hi Sam!
• Bugscope Team Are you with today's school, or are you from somewhere else in the Outer World?
• Bugscope Team today's school should connect any minute now
• 11:07am
• Bugscope Team Sam!
• Bugscope Team I just called the school, and they forgot about us, happens sometimes.
• Bugscope Team Please let me know if you would like to drive for a few minutes.
• Bugscope Team I just gave you control of the microscope.
• Guest I'm in the outer world {New York State Museum]

• 11:13am

• Bugscope Team Try clicking on any of the presets, looks like you are doing fine.
• Guest I'm happy with this image. Can we take a picture?
• Bugscope Team I'm glad you're on because otherwise this was a kind of a waste. And we are booked into next year.
• Bugscope Team oh so the images are archived to the member page, but they're 640x480.
• Bugscope Team I can take a better image for you now and make arrangements to send it.
• Bugscope Team just a sec -- I am at the 'scope
• Bugscope Team image is being collected
• Guest Actually this was meant to be a trial before we proposed a project for our students.
• Bugscope Team there are aphid parts all over this beetle

• Guest I'm zooming out to look for aphids
• 11:18am
• Bugscope Team well be sure and drive around, check out (click on) some of the presets on the lefthand screen
• Bugscope Team you can see a leg in the upper right, right now
• Bugscope Team also, along the left side of the thorax as it faces us
• Bugscope Team and on the tip of the abdomen
• Bugscope Team the image had been frozen a minute ago because I took a more high-res image
• Guest How do I look at the tip of the abdomen?
• Bugscope Team and you can guess, all of the admin people are me right now

• Bugscope Team what you would do from your end is go to low mag and then use click to center to move in that direction

• Bugscope Team but of course I'm at the 'scope and just took us there
• Bugscope Team you can see an eye, lower left

• Bugscope Team aphids don't airdry well, so if we get them and know we've got them we critical point dry them
• Guest All right!!
• Bugscope Team compound eye
• Bugscope Team so Sam you can see the arrow to the left of the main screen...
• 11:23am
• Bugscope Team if you click on that arrow, you can see all of the presets I made earlier
• Bugscope Team and you can if you want click on any of them to have the 'scope drive to that place on the stub
• Bugscope Team that click will supersede the playing around I'm doing now
• Bugscope Team another aphid -- you can see that it is a hemipteran
• Guest This has been very helpful. We will put together a proposal to look at Zale a lepidopteran genus we are studying with high school students.
• Bugscope Team totally cool
• Bugscope Team this is Mexican jumping bean
• Guest Awesome. Thanks for the opportunity. Over and out.
• Bugscope Team thank you!