{"id":3963,"date":"2011-04-14T09:32:03","date_gmt":"2011-04-14T17:32:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mlmlblog.wordpress.com\/?p=3963"},"modified":"2011-04-14T09:32:03","modified_gmt":"2011-04-14T17:32:03","slug":"drop-in-to-mlml-open-house-discover-chromatography-we-want-these-colors-to-run","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/student-life\/2011\/04\/14\/drop-in-to-mlml-open-house-discover-chromatography-we-want-these-colors-to-run\/","title":{"rendered":"Drop-In to MLML Open House: Discover Chromatography &#8211;  We Want These Colors to Run"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_3964\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3964\" style=\"width: 450px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/student-life\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/75\/2011\/03\/chromatography.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3964\" title=\"Chromatography\" src=\"https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/student-life\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/75\/2011\/03\/chromatography.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"337\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/student-life\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/75\/2011\/03\/chromatography.jpg 640w, https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/student-life\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/75\/2011\/03\/chromatography-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3964\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">photo: E. Loury<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>How do biological oceanographers identify the phytoplankton in water samples they collect at sea?\u00a0 They can use a technique called chromatography that separates the pigments that phytoplankton use for photosynthesis.\u00a0 The major groups of plankton contain different pigments, and those pigments\u00a0 produce a color spectrum when they separate by weight.\u00a0 Scientists can use this color spectrum &#8220;fingerprint&#8221; to identify the type of phytoplankton the pigments came from.<\/p>\n<p>You can try your hand at chromatography at MLML&#8217;s Open House thanks to the Biological Oceanography lab!\u00a0 Did you know that pen ink is composed of many different pigments?\u00a0 Watch the ink separate into a spectrum of colors to see for yourself!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/openhouse.mlml.calstate.edu\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">MLML\u00a0Open\u00a0House is Saturday, April 30 &amp; Sunday, May 1.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How do biological oceanographers identify the phytoplankton in water samples they collect at sea?\u00a0 They can use a technique called chromatography that separates the pigments that phytoplankton use for photosynthesis.\u00a0 The major groups of plankton contain different pigments, and those pigments\u00a0 produce a color spectrum when they separate by weight.\u00a0 Scientists can use this color [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":291,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[59,199],"class_list":["post-3963","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-biological-oceanography-lab","tag-open-house"],"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"MLML Student Life","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/student-life","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/student-life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3963","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/student-life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/student-life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/student-life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/291"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/student-life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3963"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/student-life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3963\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/student-life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3963"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/student-life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3963"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/student-life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3963"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}