This week is difficult to reflect on. It was both highly eventful and highly uneventful. It was uneventful in a way because I worked more on projects outside of RECCS (such as the summer class that I am enrolled in) and catching up with my family during 4th of July weekend and watching fireworks. However,… Read More

I was so worried about understanding the work I was doing and keeping up with my mentor that I had completely overlooked what I wanted to show with the data I have processed. Last week, I had an absolute breakdown after this realization; I had so much data, but I had no idea what to… Read More

I often times find myself with some sort of word or sentence that gets stuck in my head, like one of those annoying pop songs on the radio. When this happens, I find myself most inspired to craft a poem around the word or sentence. I have been like this my whole life; written language… Read More

I didn’t know what to expect starting out here at NOAA. Everyone was so official, and I most definitely had (and sometimes still have) impostor syndrome. Looking back at all that I have accomplished with the GeoMag team thus far, (something I knew near NOTHING about originally,) I can confidently say, although I will be… Read More

I think that one of my greatest difficulties recently has just been trying to visualize things from pure data. We talked earlier in the internship about learning styles and I definitely am a visual learner so it is difficult for me to get a feel for a lot of things based on speculation. However, I… Read More

I have dealt with anxiety ever sense I can remember. Let me explain: I focus on everything that could go wrong and because of this, I rather not try new things and stick with what I know. This is why I STILL, at 28, do not know how to ride a bike. This is also… Read More

Learning more about the app has been great, and there is not much that I have to do as far as programming for it (since that has been done). So far, I have been focused on collecting data because that’s what we need, to collect and interpret information to better understand what’s going on with… Read More

The data slicing and dicing is still a work in progress as I try to develop new questions to follow after creating different graphics to analyze at Mauna Loa. This week I am so grateful for the experience of working at NOAA and the opportunities and knowledge that the office presents daily. The building is… Read More

No, I’m definitely NOT talking about the children’s band. When I say “wiggles,” I’m referring to the images we see on our seismograms here in the geophysics department when searching for earthquake data. So why exactly does this research matter? Well, earthquakes tend to be a hot topic in geology, and there is definitley a… Read More