Hello everybody! This week at EGI has been super fun and really interesting for me. This week I finally took the trip out to the Uinta basin and got to see the real field work that goes into the science I’m doing this summer. On the first day of the trip we arrived later in the day and spent the time we had till evening driving around the desert near the bonanza power plant pickup up seismometers that had been picking up seismic data in the area over the past month to help us determine whether the site is a safe and viable option for carbon storage.
On the second day of the trip I spent a lot of the day driving around to different sites in the desert with exposed sandstone formations and using a permeameter to find a permeability value that we then plug in to an equation that will ultimately give us the actual permeability of the stone we are looking at. when measuring permeability it is important to understand that the permeability going vertical to the layers of the sandstone is different than the horizontal permeability so we have to measure both of these at each site along with recording the coordinates so we can cross reference it to a geological map of Utah to determine the stone we got a permeability reading on.
While I was in the Uinta Basin area me and the other people from my lab got to go to dinosaur national monument and see the massive fossil quarry they have there along with some of the separate and more complete dinosaur fossils. Over the weekend I went to the gym and went to chipotle but mostly rested from the hot and tiring trip to the desert I made. Super excited for another 3 weeks here and for the 4th of July this week.
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