Pintern Blogs

       This week has been dominated by the sendoff of the expedition. All the past four weeks have led up to this moment, where we say goodbye to our dedicated researchers who will help preserve one the greatest remaining intact ecosystems. The route...

This week marked my second week at RNEL. I continued to work with Lily as we moved onto a new project. At the beginning of the week, we worked with special insoles from a company called Moticon. These insoles have sensors throughout them and they’re...

This week was my last week at the REEF. I had four days left at the REEF and I flew home on Friday. For my last few days I worked a lot on my scientific paper from the experiment that I had done the previous...

Pinhead blog 3         Unfortunately, this week I cannot post photos due to terrible WiFi.           This week, we continue and finish the packing for the expedition. This packing consists of last minute accessories and gear for a...

Hi everybody! This is going to be my last blog as I have now completed my computational biology internship at CMU and am back in Telluride. Over the past 6 weeks I have learned as much as I might have in a year-long course in...

Hi, my name is Ryann Fife and I attend Montrose High School. For the past week, I have been in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania interning at the Rehab Neural Engineering Lab. When I arrived, my mentor, Doug Weber assigned me to work with an undergrad student named...

This week was very exciting! I started working on a little experiment of my own, I got to test the color range of a California Two-Spot Octopus at the REEF named Jerry. California Two-Spot octopuses have the ability to change the color of their skin...

Greetings everyone. This final post is a week late and I am very sorry about that. Bryce and I embarked on a 17-hour road trip behemoth last weekend so there was no time to write this blog. I drove from Santa Barbara back to Telluride...

This week was my seventh and final week at the Bernier Lab. This week we wrapped up the SCN2A visits with a couple more families. During these visits I watched more testing, and I was also able to observe an ADOS (autism diagnostic observation schedule)...

I am going to make this short because I doubt anybody really cares about another week of computer words and stuff so here’s the summary: I spent most of the week working on building training data sets for different visual detection projects. These were fun...

Welcome back to my final blog for my Pinhead Internship – currently being typed in Montrose, Colorado. My final week was definitely the most fruitful week of all. Since Alex Booker and myself were going to have our last day on Friday, the whole group...