Week three of the internship has been good. Work in the lab has been a continuation of what we have already been doing. All groups of rats we were running are still running and no other groups were started. Though two of the alcohol rats...
This week I continued work on the same animal behavior research I had been doing. I did not get a chance to head to the molecular biology department to help with that side of things, but I was fine with this because it is a...
This week we were learning how to use codes and know their functions. My mentor was explaining how to use them properly. These codes can be used to form a wide variety of functions, like you can use them to control laboratory tools and much more. During...
The second week of my internship was just as exciting as my first. This week we primarily focused on analyses that we have to run in Molecular Dynamics (MD) simulations. Molecular Dynamics simulations are used to see how structures change over time compared to the...
The halfway point in my internship comes with a twinge of sadness, as it means my time here is winding down, but also with immense excitement as there is still so much to learn. Week three brought with it a myriad of different activities and...
My name is Finn Doherty and I am a student at Ridgway Secondary School. I am interning at the California State University Shark Lab in Long Beach. I arrived to Long Beach on the 28th of June and it has been an amazing experience so...
This week at the R.E.E.F. was quite interesting. Monday and Tuesday were pretty normal days with programs coming in and the undergraduates teaching them about kelp forests. We also did husbandry (housework) that needs to be done every day for the health of the animals. Wednesday we...
[caption id="attachment_9277" align="alignright" width="300"] Branches of the Mississippi (from the plane)[/caption] Today is my first week here at the National WWII Museum in New Orleans. Jazz is being played, the humidity is real, and I've been bustling around getting acquainted with the Science and Technology, Education,...
This week was another exciting one for me. On Monday Lexie and I finally had the communication device that attaches to our temperature sensor communicating and sending its data over 800 feet. I am glad to see that our work on this project for the...
[caption id="attachment_9236" align="alignright" width="341"] My computer process of cataloging the coral images.[/caption] Welcome back! At the beginning of this week I photographed two trays full of bricks with coral growth experiments on each of the five sides. Then I spent two days cataloging the images and measuring them while...
This week the team at USRI prepared for a project known as CloudMap. If you did not read my previous post, CloudMap is a collaborative initiative by multiple universities to map weather phenomena using unmanned systems. The next CloudMap project will be in Alamos Co,...
This week of my internship was amazing!! I went on the scholastic expeditions trip to the channel islands and had a blast. Both full days we were anchored at the islands we had rotations of kayaking, snorkeling, and invertebrate ID. The second day we were there the group went...
This was an exciting week for my internship as I was finally able to handle the rats being used for research. Most of what the interns in the lab (including me) do is transfer rats from their home cages to self-administration chambers and back, while...
This week was more about preparing machines for the campaign in Alamosa called CloudMap. Oklahoma State University Research Institute is sending a team of people to Colorado all with different jobs to study wind and weather data coming off a mountain. My week went well...
[caption id="attachment_9113" align="alignleft" width="225"] Smithsonian Welcome Center[/caption] I am officially half way through my internship and this week things at the Rodham Institute have started to pick up. I started off the week by going to the hospital and rounding with residents on the general medicine...