Hi world, I’m a tad bit late in the game, but none the less I’m here. And that my friend, is a whole lot like what life has been these past few weeks. A little background knowledge about me is that I’m 18 years old, however as of late, it feels more like I’m only… Read More
Jessie and I have been in the field collecting data for the past couple of weeks. We hike to a site, set a plot, take the coordinates, take hemispherical photos, and head back to the lab to process the photos and enter the data. The sites are awesome. It’s nice to be outside all day… Read More
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Between last week and this week my family was in town here in Colorado from Ohio for the first time! I have lived in Colorado for over a year so I had gone a long time without seeing them. The greatest thing was that I was able to bring my sisters into the field with… Read More
My name is Michaela Brannum and I am working with Jimmy McCutchan this summer in the Department of Limnology, which is the study of inland waters. I am a Marine Biology major so limnology was about as close as I could get to learning something that would benefit my knowledge of my major in the… Read More
This was one of the sites Randall and I went to on Tuesday. It is up by Nederland. We decided to head to higher elevation in an attempt to escape the heat of the city.… Read More
June 14th, 2016 I am so exhausted after today! Since I live close by to campus I don’t typically drive so I can avoid parking fees. This week I’ve been trying a new practice: biking to the lab. I discovered that it has shaved off a lot of time in comparison to walking to campus.… Read More
June 13th, 2016 – Determining Proper Dilution for Plating and Preparing LB Agar Plates Today was a relatively fun day. The agar plates with various dilutions of soil bacteria from both the north-facing and south-facing slopes had incubated all weekend and thankfully had some growth on them. I was a bit surprised at how quickly… Read More
8:00am “I love my job!..Love my life!!” A few hours of banging my head against the wall later- “I need to go home and play with my dogs..” Today was really stressful, some real issues with Excel. In the end, perseverance won. 6:00pm “I got this.” I will finish this. Excel will not beat me. Cheers,… Read More
These first few weeks of the internship were very exciting. I am still in a state of disbelief over being selected for this incredible opportunity. I have learned the basics of programming code using a language called Python and read several papers on fluvial geomorphology. My project focuses on determining how three different processes affect downstream… Read More
