Hello everyone, I just realized it’s been while since I’ve posted. We were planning to go out on the field for our last data collection today, but we will not be able to safely cross Boulder creek with this weather so we will hold off for now. Last week, we walked through that river up… Read More
Hi all, We had a wonderful week in the field. This week we visited Bald Mountain, Sunshine Canyon and Heil Valley. These are all beautiful sites. We still have work to do in all of them, and I look forward to having Jennifer, Lesley and Moana join us! Our data collection is coming along and… Read More
Another Monday is here! I am amazed at how quickly time has passed since we began this internship. Only 5 more weeks and we will be done here. Data collection came and went last week, with only a little dehydration and exhaustion. Nothing to write home about, except that I’ll opt for some company on… Read More
Hi, My graduate student Tess is on a vacation this week, so I can’t do much work for my project (because I can’t use the fluorescent microscope alone as a undergraduate) . I realized that I probably don’t have enough time to finish all the steps in my project, which means I have to change… Read More
Hi, Originally I thought collecting data on 8 sites with 5 plots each was a rather unattainable goal. However, our team has become so efficient. Now I see not only is it possible, but that we may even have time for even more data collection. This week we had field work at Maxwell Ranch in… Read More
This weeks has been sort of an egg scramble, with lots of parts and pieces all jumbled together into one delicious meal. Friday my partner in crime and I went out again to the field where we saw iron precipitation, feral dogs, rivers running at 550cfs, and the slow but sure decaying out of our… Read More
As I was complaining about nothing I could do with my project on last Monday, I have been super busy since last Wednesday. I have all the stuff to do my experiment. As it turns out, reality is a lot different than what you planned. According to the paper we read, the method we are… Read More
You know you’re in the big web of science when you begin to recognize cited sources in scientific papers. It reminds me that each small research project is a part of something so much bigger than anything one person could do alone. The rabbit hole is very deep. No project is too small. … Read More
