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Foods of Micronesia

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Note that this blog is not complete with respect to all the groups that presented. Only those groups for which a photograph of their food was taken are included below. Keisha and Grace from Pohnpei would present uht sukusuk. Grace presenting uht sukusuk. Uht sukusuk is pounded cooked bananas smothered in coconut milk. Austin and Breilon of U, Pohnpei, presented kehp neir, yam fritters. Yam fritters. Best when hot. Keanu, Baldezzar, and Joseph of Woleai along with Lyviane of Ulithi presented bulag gatip. Bulag gatip: boiled hard taro with coconut milk. Harston of Enipein, Kitti presented uht pirain solo. Uht pirain, fried banana slices. When hot not unlike a french fry. Note this would have been unripe bananas as fried ripe bananas will not hold shape once fried. En Neiritancy "Neiivahlynn" of Chuuk and Anastasia of Kitti, Pohnpei, presented boiled kehp neir....
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Latitude and longitude hide and seek

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Fall term recommended moving the solstice presentation to Friday of week seven, but the vernal equinox is not until Saturday 21 March 2026, at 1:46 AM local time. The solstice presentation will only make sense on Friday 20 March at the end of week ten, not the end of week seven. There is always this asymmetry in the term, first experienced when the ethnobotany class used the equinoxes to clean the Haruki cemetery .  That date moved between different weeks of the term, causing the ethnobotany schedule to have to be revised every term. Monday focused on latitude and longitude only, followed by a slide deck on the use of GPSTest , and open source Android app which is ad-free. The app has none of the downsides of GPS Essentials. GPS Essentials attempts to be the default app for PDFs and other formats. GPSTest is GPS and only GPS, but in doing only one thing, the app does that one thing extremely well.  The only quibble is that the Longitude wraps but the labels ...
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8.2 Five marbles and the standard error of the mean

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Materials required are marbles and a 200 gram scale. This term a mix of marbles was used.  Students were told to pick five marbles. This avoided an issue that had been created by giving students five of the same marbles. When different sets of five were in use, some were the smaller, lighter blue marbles and these would generally not capture the population mean. A spreadsheet , single tab for the Smartboard memory limitations, is used to generate data. Tallying a dozen students took until around 9:25, this photo was taken at 9:32.  After the first five marbles were massed the point estimate of the population mean was 5.06. The massing was paused to explain that this was the best estimate of the population mean for that student. The point estimate for the population mean.  Masses are done marble by marble. After the second student the split in the point estimate was pointed out. And that both were now "wrong" - the population...
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Botany lab seven carbon sequestration by trees

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Botany laboratory six carbon sequestration was pushed back to laboratory seven when the hydroponics field trip moved from week nine to week six. The class went straight into the field with no preparatory notes given in order to take advantage of the break in the weather present on campus at 11:00. By afternoon a flooding rain was falling. The circumference is measured in inches, the height in feet for the algorithm in this laboratory. The field measurements were recorded in iNaturalist as notes. iNaturalist provides a place to record circumference and height data while automatically picking up the location and date. Identification of the species is also facilitated by iNaturalist.  iNaturalist The tallest tree in the area is this Acacia. The Acacia is visibly taller than the other trees in that area.  The Acacia had a diameter of 26.8 inches in spring 2025, spring 2026 the diameter was 28.6 inches. Santriko holds the end of the tape ...
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