{"id":209,"date":"2023-08-16T15:35:19","date_gmt":"2023-08-16T19:35:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/instrumentationlab\/?page_id=209"},"modified":"2023-08-16T15:35:19","modified_gmt":"2023-08-16T19:35:19","slug":"grazing-wheel","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/instrumentationlab\/grazing-wheel\/","title":{"rendered":"Grazing Wheel"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Department:<\/strong>&nbsp;Zoology<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Primary Investigator:<\/strong>&nbsp;Dr. Craig Williamson<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Purpose of Project:<\/strong>&nbsp;The grazing wheel enables researchers in the Williamson Ecology of UV Laboratory to conduct feeding experiments using zooplankton and phytoplankton species.&nbsp; Zooplankton and a food source are placed in glass bottles and secured on the wheel.&nbsp; As the wheel rotates, food particles that might normally settle to the bottom of a flask or beaker remain suspended and available for zooplankton feeding during experiments.&nbsp; Past experiments using a grazing wheel have looked at the ingestion and infectivity of pathogens and clearance rates by Daphnia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\" \/>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-getwid-images-stack\"><div class=\"wp-block-getwid-images-stack__wrapper\"><div class=\"wp-block-getwid-images-stack__chunk\"><div class=\"wp-block-getwid-images-stack__media-wrapper\"><div class=\"wp-block-getwid-images-stack__media-inner-wrapper\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1280\" height=\"960\" class=\"wp-block-getwid-images-stack__media wp-image-210\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/instrumentationlab\/files\/2023\/08\/grazingwheel.jpeg\" data-id=\"210\" data-link=\"https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/instrumentationlab\/?attachment_id=210\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/instrumentationlab\/files\/2023\/08\/grazingwheel.jpeg 1280w, https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/instrumentationlab\/files\/2023\/08\/grazingwheel-300x225.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/instrumentationlab\/files\/2023\/08\/grazingwheel-1024x768.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/instrumentationlab\/files\/2023\/08\/grazingwheel-768x576.jpeg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1280px) 100vw, 1280px\" \/><\/div><\/div><div class=\"wp-block-getwid-images-stack__media-wrapper\"><div class=\"wp-block-getwid-images-stack__media-inner-wrapper\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1280\" height=\"960\" class=\"wp-block-getwid-images-stack__media wp-image-211\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/instrumentationlab\/files\/2023\/08\/lfside.jpg\" data-id=\"211\" data-link=\"https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/instrumentationlab\/?attachment_id=211\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/instrumentationlab\/files\/2023\/08\/lfside.jpg 1280w, https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/instrumentationlab\/files\/2023\/08\/lfside-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/instrumentationlab\/files\/2023\/08\/lfside-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/instrumentationlab\/files\/2023\/08\/lfside-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1280px) 100vw, 1280px\" \/><\/div><\/div><div class=\"wp-block-getwid-images-stack__media-wrapper\"><div class=\"wp-block-getwid-images-stack__media-inner-wrapper\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1280\" height=\"960\" class=\"wp-block-getwid-images-stack__media wp-image-212\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/instrumentationlab\/files\/2023\/08\/motor.jpeg\" data-id=\"212\" data-link=\"https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/instrumentationlab\/?attachment_id=212\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/instrumentationlab\/files\/2023\/08\/motor.jpeg 1280w, https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/instrumentationlab\/files\/2023\/08\/motor-300x225.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/instrumentationlab\/files\/2023\/08\/motor-1024x768.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/instrumentationlab\/files\/2023\/08\/motor-768x576.jpeg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1280px) 100vw, 1280px\" \/><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\" \/>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>IL Comment:<\/strong>&nbsp;User brought in a prototype unit that they&#8217;d made themselves at another university. IL developed a new design that would be more reliable, sturdier, the sample wheel could be easily removed, and that would fit inside their environmental chambers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Cost to researcher:<\/strong>&nbsp;$247.64 for two. 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