Grace Tsai

Grace Tsai

College Station, Texas

Texas A&M University, Institute of Nautical Archaeology, Atlantic World Marine Archaeology Research Institute

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Published on Dec 09, 2018

Updates

UpdatesHi Everyone! It's been a while since we last updated our project.Please check out our latest blog post to read our progress here: https://nauticalarch.org/23117-2/?fbclid=IwAR3v4zvL1OsbiWXob...

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Published on Jul 19, 2018

Oxidation, Scurvy, and Other Gross Things

Oxidation, Scurvy, and Other Gross ThingsWe’ve been hard at work in the lab and are finally getting results thanks to the collaboration and help of several on- and off-campus professors, researcher...

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Published on Apr 26, 2018

Some Preliminary Results to Share!

We recently presented posters at Texas A&M University's Student Research Week, the shipboard beertasting event, and at Texas A&M's Nautical Program Shipwreck Weekend. If you were unable to ...

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Published on Mar 15, 2018

Historical Beertasting on 19th-Century Elissa

Historical Beertasting on 19th-Century Elissa In a week, on Friday, March 23, 2018, the Ship Biscuit & Salted Beef (SBSB) Research Project, led by Texas A&M PhD student Grace Tsai, will be ...

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Published on Mar 02, 2018

Gas Chromatography-Mass Spectrometry (GC/MS) for Flavor Profiling

Check out our latest blog post that recounts the GC/MS results from the historical beer sample!https://nauticalarch.org/beer-mold-and-chemistry/

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Published on Jan 29, 2018

New Bacteria Species in Salted Beef

Winter break was both exciting and stressful. Exciting because we received some unexpected results from the microbial laboratory work, but stressful because we were rushing to have the results read...

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Published on Oct 01, 2017

Increase in soluble protein of wine

Increase in soluble protein of wine Wine Sample (08-19-17) Wine Sample (09-19-17) Protein: 0.19603 mg/mL Protein: .33267 mg/mL

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Published on Sep 09, 2017

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Published on Aug 23, 2017

Salted Beef!

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Hi Folks! More updates are available on our Facebook page that we update periodically with the newest data https://www.facebook.com/SBSBResearch/ :)
Mar 12, 2019
What Did 17th-Century Sailors Really Eat?
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Thanks! We have several more updates on our Facebook page that we post periodically https://www.facebook.com/SBSBResearch/
Mar 12, 2019
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We'll keep everyone updated with how it goes :) Thanks for your support!
Mar 15, 2018
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Thanks for the nice comments! We think most of these microbes are halotolerant so don't require salt to survive but can withstand it--they don't seem to be strict halophiles at least, but we'll need to confirm that with further research and tests. We're not sure if the majority of the microbes in the salted beef made it past cooking depending on how long they boiled their food, so it's not even certain whether or not they would have made it to the gut at all to be honest. The samples that would be the most interesting to note for these is would be those that were not boiled--the wine, beer, water, ship biscuit! We'll write a post on that as soon as we find out more :)
Feb 03, 2018
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Thank you!!!
Oct 07, 2017
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Thanks so much!!!
Oct 07, 2017
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Thanks, Beverly! Couldn't have it done it without your help!
Oct 07, 2017
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Thank you so much!
Oct 07, 2017
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Thank you!!!
Oct 05, 2017
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Great idea! I am a fan of Patrick O'Brien and it would be amazing to see this work incorporated into historical fiction. Thanks!
Oct 05, 2017
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Thank you very much!
Oct 05, 2017
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Thank you! We will certainly keep everyone updated with the results.
Oct 05, 2017
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