My project is rockin and rollin. Overnight at the Tundra Lab was super fun and surprisingly warm! The team and I dug a 10ft deep snow pit, and completed multiple surveys. I am finally comfortable with the site and my specific points of interest to where I am independently working along the GPR (ground penetrating… Read More

After weeks of building up base-level knowledge on relevant computer programs, I am finally getting a move on with my project. I wrote my first code using Python (very exciting) which opened a text file containing a list of photo names which I had compiled earlier, found the images associated with the photo names, copied… Read More

Quite a busy week. Still just making intensive spreadsheets to try and weed out the noise in our data. Trying to develop different methods on how we do this in google sheets. Definitely a process. I did find out with my mentor that there is a strong difference in crowdmag survey in a vehicle, on… Read More

This week has had some extreme ups and downs. I was not ready for a week like this. First a good thing. I got to see my reference/ friend. I got to show them the lab I’m working in and they gave me cookies. That was awesome. However, shortly after I managed to ruin two… Read More

Things are looking really good this week; we now finally have composites that show us where events are primarily taking place. It has been difficult getting the code to work properly, but after a week, things are finally coming together. My mentor has been out all week, so I’m not really sure what all these… Read More

I don’t have any fun picture for you this week, and sadly I don’t have any good news yet either. Turns out it was the pump in the GC that was the problem. Therefore, we had to take the instrument out of the mobile lab and to the manufacturer. Luckily the manufacturer is just in… Read More

What a week of progress! My mentor has been out for the week, so I have essentially been left running the fire simulator and rainfall simulator. We took my own truck (cool) to get soil samples in the field. We were also lucky enough to be joined by Ben Livneh who offered some of his… Read More

This week I have made quite a bit of media. Not social media. This kind that wee-beasties eat! This project requires a lot of food for the little buggas. I will be providing them a constant flow of media so that I can keep them in exponential phase. This means that they will be growing… Read More

This past week we checked on and collected nests from nest boxes in and around Boulder. Chickadee breeding season is coming to a close for the season here in Boulder. Boulder had approximately 30 cultivated nests used in the available nest boxes housed in trees and contained in North and Central Boulder areas. We also… Read More

This week, I continued to learn about the many processes that go into the research for my project. Since my project is interdisciplinary, there seems to be never-ending background knowledge needed to understand how we are analyzing our samples for this project. A victory did come in at the beginning of the week when I… Read More