Brine Shrimp Lab

Authors

Brynja Kohler, Utah State University
Rebecca Swank, Utah State Univerisity
Jim Haefner, Utah State University
Jim Powell, Utah State University

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Description

Young brine shrimp movements within a petri dish are tracked by students. Students are challenged to determine and verify whether the brine shrimp move in a random walk. From this exercise students gain greater understanding of PDE models, diffusion and parameter estimation.

Publication Date

2016

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Comments

For additional details and information see the peer reviewed article: http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11538-009-9444-4

Recommended Citation

Kohler, Brynja; Swank, Rebecca; Haefner, Jim; and Powell, Jim, "Brine Shrimp Lab" (2016). Laboratory Experiences in Mathematical Biology. 5.
https://digitalcommons.usu.edu/lemb/5