This week I did a lot more coding. More than I ever did in high school even. Matlab is proving to be quite difficult the more I have to program it, but that was expected. However, I did get to learn a bit more about my project, though I still have a long ways to… Read More
This week at NOAA was another week filled with creating Excel spreadsheets. I am now modeling “bubble” scatter plots to show my infrastructure anomaly results. My mentor, Rick, had me create one type of scatter plot and now I am working on another way to model the anomalies. We created and ordered our CrowdMag T-Shirts,… Read More
Well time is certainly flying by. I really don’t have much to say because this week the time was mostly spent downloading and processing satellite data which we still haven’t quite completed yet. The process is underway and we are getting close. In addition to this, a lot of time was spent reading papers and… Read More
Finally, I was able to pull the first round of results out of the incubator, do a CFU (colony forming unit) count and put the data into a graph in R. Unfortunately my initial count reflected my confusion between bacillus cells that were spread wide and deformed, and fungi. An example of a cell that… Read More
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
