I have made it to Mystic CT and am just starting to get my feet wet so to say. It is a beautiful location in between the town of Groton and Stonington. It is a quaint little town that reminds me a lot of Telluride. Other than the...
Hello again! This is my second week here at Oklahoma State University - and it was just as great as the last. [caption id="attachment_11831" align="alignright" width="375"] Floating Yellow Heart in Lake Carl Blackwell[/caption] To kick it off, on Monday we went over to Lake Carl Blackwell and did...
This was my final week in Miami. Last Saturday I visited the Venetian Pool in Coral Gables. It was a quick 10 minute walk. I swam around for a little while to cool off from the hot Miami weather. On Sunday I rode a bus to...
7/5/19 - Wake up. Stop alarm. Squirrels. This morning, I walked down to the squirrels, half awake, as usual. However, as soon as I got to the site, I was greeted by a vulture. It startled me so bad that I gasped out loud. I'm sure...
[caption id="attachment_11802" align="alignleft" width="300"] Files at the office for one study they are completing: TIGER -- https://www.simonssearchlight.org/research/what-we-study/[/caption] This week was my second week at the Bernier Lab. As we continued to wind down from the big DYRK1a conference, the clinicians started to review different tests they...
Hello Everyone! This week I spent all week working in the clinic at the Medical Faculty Associates building. I had the opportunity to work with cardiology and internal medicine. I got to shadow the attendees during their appointments and speak to the staff in the clinic...
7/4/19 - Before I even walked into the kitchen this morning, I was out by the site collecting data on Squirrel's A and B. Surprisingly, there were no bugs in sight - not even on B. I was confused, but maybe B had gotten too...
7/3/19 - Today was a very important day. As soon as I was finished breakfast, I made my way up to Headquarters. Cristina greeted me, discussed the experiment set up briefly, and sent me on my merry way for some data collection. I opened the...
Monday: Today when I arrived to work, after making copies of the appropriate .dll files, I uploaded my programs executable to the company's local servers so that we could begin testing across computers. Upon the first test, we found that there was a problem with my...
{VIEWER DISCRETION IS ADVISED} 7/2/19 - I woke up this morning just like any other day. I went through my morning routine as usual - I did everything except eat breakfast. I got to Headquarters at 9:30 am, which was about a 1 mile walk. After...
7/1/19 - Hello! My name is Mercedes Martinez and I attend Dolores High School, and through the Pinhead Institute I have had the amazing opportunity to intern at the Appleton-Whittell Research Ranch in Elgin, Arizona. I actually arrived here on Friday (6/28/19) and have been...
Wow, its the end of week 3? Well, that's kinda crazy! So, the last week has gone great, I checked out downtown Denver and did cool stuff at Illfonic and finished the Discord Hack Week. Well, let's start with what I did at Illfonic, eh?...
Hello Friends and welcome to my final blog post. I spent my last week working outside at the Mines campus, pulling together a presentation. The presentation covered what my goals for the internship were, what I accomplished, and considering what someone who would be picking...
Hello! This week Miranda and I retrieved data from our flow experiment. We were able to calculate the flow level for each of the lines to obtain the flow rate and water exchange rate. We also took the mass and volume of each of our...
Aloha, My partner Yash and I have been assigned a phenotyping project. Phenotypes are the physical characteristics of plants. One such characteristic is growth rate. The professors goal is to understand how plants growth rate changes based on environment. This is possible because Hawaii has a...