Team:Calgary/10 August 2009

• We are in Fort McMurray today and tomorrow to look at oil sands and its been an interesting day, here are the things I learned today:

1. How economics play a role in oil sands (if the amount per barrel is under 50-60, it will be difficult to make a profit) 2. We looked at mines today and the heavy machine that comes behind the scenes to get everything done. 3. Learned a lot about geology today 4. Finally, we were able to see many statues and many marked places.

• In general, it was a lot of fun. I anticipate that tomorrow will be just as fun, Will update more tomorrow

• Tour of the SunCor Oil Sands Mining Facilities
• Heavy machinery!! Caterpillars are amazing cool; aka my house times 2. :)
• Tour of reclaimed sites: area with 'bison' to prove bioremediation courtesy of SynCrude

• Moving a few of the activities I have permissions on to the second lab and began changing positions that some of the materials are set to when they are required to move, which will be completed tomorrow morning.
• I also spent a lot of time making new note cards and dropping them into inventory for restriction digest as well as construction so that it is possible for something to be given back at each step

One issue I discovered within construction was that the id of the individual performing the task was not kept track of so it has to be stored every time an avatar chooses particular circuit parts to ligate together. Also, the substrings for some of the circuit parts still appear to be a couple of base pairs off within construction sites so I will have to use a note card reader I have been using for tests to see what the substrings should actually be.

Tomorrow I would like to finish changing the sequencing station script so that it functions properly for the lab missions as well as general activities and I want to return to the DNA animation by the afternoon and see if it is possible to unravel the strands of DNA I have built.