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Botany laboratory eleven on 24 March was handled with an invasive species of plants presentation . Weather inveighed against an outdoor walk. The laboratory submission is an iNaturalist observation of an invasive species .  There are five students in botany who are also in ethnobotany. With ethnobotany covering invasives the following Thursday, they were excused from the Thursday session as the presentation is the same for the two courses. There is just a difference of focus with the ethnobotany course focusing on the potential cultural impacts of invasive plant species.  Thursday, however, the weather was unexpectedly clear and sunny. The Thursday class would wind up going on a cold open field walk accompanied by a single page checklist . In retrospect the botany students could have benefitted from the field walk, but weather based decisions have to be made in the minutes ahead of class time. On Pohnpei, if you do not like the weather, wait five minutes. Blue skie...

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A 15:30 no roll call, cold open saw the class start with three students. Others caught up during the walk.  Miconia crenata The decision to go with a field walk and not the presentation was driven by good weather, a desire to make the encounters with invasives real, and because botany had just done this as an indoor lecture. Botany had already been excused, which trimmed the class size by six students. The decision to not use the invasive species of plants presentation and to instead go for a field walk was made around 14:30, an hour ahead of class. To accompany the field walk a single sheet handout/checklist was prepared. Heterotis rotundifolia Although the road poses a risk, the best collection of invasives is along the road. Every plant save one was an invasive. There is a small forest of Spathodea campanulata growing there, a carpet of Heterotis rotundifolia, a fringe of Hellenia speciosa, Clerodendrum quadriloculare, and Ischaemum polystachyum. ...

The dedication of the new student union being slated for 11:00 meant that choir students were excused from morning classes, and music class students were to be excused from 10:00. This led to dropping the videos which are usually used in part to stall the start and allow for late arrivals. This term was the first term for the Doogee Fire 3 Pro to be used under the microscope. A Pixel Pro 10 also proved to have resolvable pixels under the microscope. With no videos the laboratory was done as a guided quick run through, answers were reflected onto the Smartboard. A Desmos file was used to help illustrate HSV colors.

Cold open was Niki Indigo with no comment. Slips of paper were prepared ahead of class. The students were beckoned outside non-verbally. Niki with the new speakers really thumps Once outside I told them to write down the colors they see in the order they see the colors. Students listed from four to eight colors.  This activity segues into ROYGBIV and the issue of six colors versus seven and  of indigo. Whether this is the optimal direction to take this activity is debatable. There may be other less potentially problematic directions to go. Such as the wavelengths and frequencies of the colors. Short shrift can be made of indigo saying Newton preferred seven colors but not delving into the possible reasons.

Due to a video that changed from being able to be added to a playlist to one that can no longer be added to a playlist, the playlist remains in an older account.  Blackbriar's Floriography music video led the list. The title and some of the papers relate to floriography, but the lyrics are unclear even on the new speaker set. This video was dropped from the list. Yong Junhyung's Flower is bass heavy and could use less bass than the maximum setting used. That said, A102 was empty as was A103, opening up the opportunity to see what the new speakers could do at full throttle. A 1:25 pitch for a book on florigraphy is also not that useful to the list and was deleted post hoc as well. The playlist was started at 15:23 to run the two music videos ahead of 15:30. The list wrapped after 16:00 but left enough time to walk west. Eugenia uniflora was in bloom. Ocimum tenuiflorum, Gardenia taitensis, and Jasminum sambac were also in bloom and still had flowers on them. These had been fe...