README FOR MMS/ZEISS SPEC CHARACTERIZATION STUDY TWO EXPERIMENTS WERE CARRIED OUT USING 0.5 mM unpurified meta-cresol purple in B125 DYE WAS DISPENSED BY PIPPETTE in 10 uL INCREMENTS UNTIL ABSORBANCE REACHED AN ASYMPTOTE ~ 1.1-1.5 ABSORBANCE Expt 1: pH 4.0 BUFFER SOLUTION FROM FISHER = YELLOW/ORANGE Expt 2: pH 11.8 NaOH SOLUTION= PURPLE YT DID FINAL WORKUP IN MATLAB, .XLS files are raw data and workup, and are labeled as such. 5/29/2018- JKW for MBARI