Hiya! This was my fifth week at the Frazier Institute in Louisville, Kentucky and I'm absorbing everything like a sponge! This week was especially cool because I got to see the first real leap in progress that I have been able to observe since being...
Hello! This week marks my 5th week in Seattle! This week ended up being a combination of office work and observing testing. This week we had one TIGER family come in for testing. TIGER is a study looking at different genetic events linked with autism...
Hello, hello! Welcome back to week five of my internship. [caption id="attachment_12710" align="alignright" width="404"] The delta shaped "Popwing" that we would replicate.[/caption] We finally did it. On Thursday we went to the airfield and tested our inflatable wing. But before we talk about that, let's take it...
Side note: I got an extension!! I will be staying on at conservation metrics until week 8 :) Monday: I worked on formally documenting the projects that I had been working on. I have never done this and it felt good to explain everything I had been...
I am continuing my work with the Okavango Wilderness Project (OWP). This week has been filled with nonstop packing. The Okavango wilderness project is attempting to depart on the 19th of July. For this to happen, it’s all hands on deck to...
It's hard to believe that six weeks have already passed! This week was another interesting week. I spent most of it working on the Folsom dam model, doing the same things as last week. We were measuring different flow rates through the bulkhead gate and how much...
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 professor's goal is to understand how plants' growth rate changes based on environment. This is possible because Hawaii has a...
Week Three at the Communication and Learning Lab Week three at the C.A.L Lab has been slightly slower than the past two due to the fact that we are done with our first condition of the experiment! At the moment, we are trying to re-code the...
This week, we completed a successful test of the sensor network, using temperature sensors in place of the CO2 sensors. With three nodes, data was gathered, sent through the main node to a computer, which printed the data to a CSV file, which was then...
I can't believe this internship is almost over. It has been such an amazing experience/opportunity to be able to come out here t0 Mystic CT, to work here at the Mystic Seaport Museum. I have learned so many different things here that I will never...
Monday: My first plan for the week was to take a more careful look at the firmware for the devices (Audiomoths) I had been working on. I started on this project at the end of the previous week and did not had enough time to understand...
I’m Wiley Holbrooke, and I am doing an internship with the Okavango wilderness Project (OWP) in Botswana. The OWP is an organization that is researching the Okavango Delta, the worlds largest internal delta. They complete these research projects by spending a month or so paddling...
My internship is officially over and the ending was bittersweet. I am happy to return to my small mountain town but sad to leave all the great people I met behind. My last week at the clinic was very fun, on Monday I observed a...
My last week at the Tybee Marine Science Center was filled with fun and saying goodbyes. This week I got to meet a few new animals that decided to show up at the center, like terrapin eggs, and big stingrays. As my week came to...
This is my third week working at the reef and I did very similar work to what I did during week two. Tech trek, a summer camp of all middle school girls, is spending 2 weeks on campus, and Scott wanted most of his employees...
