This week started with a bang! A very confused, stressful, running all over CIRES bang. Last week, we were stressing that we wouldn’t have enough volunteers; we ended up with 47. We thought we had a room ready to use, but then it turned out to be occupied. As was our back up room. So… Read More
Jumping right in, instead of trying to create a best fit polynomial (polyfit) to my data, I was supposed to be creating a linear fit via the power fit equation, but using the polyfit function in MatLab to do it…I’m confused! Well, once we finally got it all sorted, we plotted, and guess what we… Read More
Impostor syndrome (according to Wikipedia) “…is a psychological pattern in which an individual doubts their accomplishments, and has a persistent internalized fear of being exposed as a ‘fraud’.” One of my fellow NOAA interns (not from RECCS) told me about this over lunch on the Friday of our first week on the job. I wasn’t familiar… Read More
Week 4 has been a bit frustrating from a technology standpoint (Halibut, as a reminder, is my desktop at Benson). I’m at the point where I’ve processed and marked all of the images from our drone flight last Monday, and tried to create the dense cloud three times this week. This process usually takes over… Read More
As the title currently states, this week I have felt much more like a programmer than before. This week I was able to create a couple of scripts that lets me pull information from the forecast files and from the observations files. Currently, I am working on getting a master script ready that will use… Read More
Wow! Three weeks down, six weeks to go. After wrestling for many hours on some tricky calculations and staying up late to finish writing my lab procedure, I finally got my first round of microbes in the incubator! The problem was finding the correct water holding capacity for the three main compost types and because… Read More
Just like me, this past week has been a bit of a hot mess. We had a run in with a power tripping gate guard. My mentor was embarrassed but I assured him that the guard was just being one of “those types.” It was actually somewhat amusing. For anyone going to NOAA, be sure… Read More
Good morning fellow wizards of RECCS. I guess tis that time. Well last week I have to say went very smooth and I think it’s safe to say that this is the best job I have ever had. Okay, maybe it wasn’t as good as the golfball selling business I started when I was 14…..oh… Read More
My second week wasn’t all that eventful, although it was also a short week with an Army day on Friday. I mostly worked in (and still learning) MatLab using some sample data from previous experiments. Looking at the data and seeing how it fits together definitely helps solidify some of the abstract concepts we had… Read More
It was a bright sunny morning when suddenly the fire alarm went off during the middle of my shower! My first thought: Are you serious?! I haven’t even put shampoo in yet! After all the Bear Creek residents scrambled out of the building, a firetruck showed up and firemen investigated the building to find no… Read More
