Man how this internship is already flying by. This week has definitely been more technical. I have started to work with python programming for our data sets and turning them into graphs that we can analyze the geomagnetic fields from. I was really proud of myself for not being familiar with google sheets and just… Read More
Coming into this program I was quite nervous about working alongside physicists, scientists and PhD students. Over the past week, I have gotten to know all of my fellow interns who are all different but have key similar characteristics that we can all relate to each other with. I really enjoyed the team building exercises… Read More
Wow! What a great way to start off an internship! I have never felt more ready to start a big project than I am right now. Friday was quite the exhausting day, the amount of preparation fo the project is outstanding. After meeting with my mentor, and going through a vigorous and thorough training on… Read More
Howdy! What an exciting first week of our internships! Though we have only been here a week, I feel like I’ve already been packing in as much adventure as possible! Firstly, I miss the Boulder Bike Trail. It’s been a blast getting back on two wheels and riding the bike everywhere – including to Longmont… Read More
First of all, it was amazing getting to know each and every one of you. I hope Friday went well for everyone. I was lucky enough to actually hike up to the tundra lab and start measurements. Side note: DO NOT FORGET SUNSCREEN! I’m so red, I look like the wrong end of a baboon.… Read More
Both of my mentors returned this week, and have given me clarity and direction in the division’s work. The last several days I have been immersed in ‘Unix’ and ‘R’ languages at the terminal all day. 7 days ago I had never heard of either of these programming languages, and now I am successfully navigating… Read More
January 2nd, 2017 It has been 5 months since I wrote my last blog entry and since I completed the RECCS program. It is unbelievable how much this internship has positively impacted my life within such a short amount of time. I am grateful every day for the amazing summer that I had. It was… Read More
July 17th, 2016 This week I determined if any of my plate and PMA samples had contaminants in them using my OTU table, determined if the effect of the resuscitation factors on the community composition had statistical significance, observed the diversity of different data subsets (plates, north-facing, south-facing, PMA samples, etc.), determined taxa that are… Read More
July 23rd, 2016 This week I finished up my data processing and finalized the figures for my poster and oral presentation, put together the rough draft of my project poster, and had a phone interview with science writer from CU Boulder to talk about my experience at RECCS. At the communication workshop, I participated in… Read More
*Excuse this post going up at such an odd time in the night, but I just had to let some of these thoughts escape my mind. * This is the end! This is the beginning of the last week, and boy doesn’t this feel so surreal! As I’m working on finalizing my poster and PowerPoint-… Read More
