Have you ever seen pictures of Acid Mine Drainage? If not, I encourage you to google that mess immediately. The pictures you will find might give you an idea of what my team and I discovered on our field trip last Friday. Here is a summary of the events that took place: After a nice… Read More

My first week on the job was fun, exciting, nervous and a little bit stressed. The graduate student I am working with called Tess, she is really awesome. She let me do DNA extraction for her project on my first day!!! Learning all different kind of lab techniques and playing with all those high-tech equipments… Read More

This week has been wonderful. I did learn early on that you should probably get permission before taking photos at federal government buildings. I’m based at USGS for my project. My mentor is Jenny Briggs, a research ecologist, and Fleur Ferro, a biology instructor from the Community College of Denver, is part of our team… Read More

I have never had a job that I sat in a windowless room working on the computer for hours at a time; fortunately, I love numbers and results. (not to mention, I have a quirky group to share the office with) We started this week off choosing the locations for data collection along the boulder… Read More

HELLO! I am writing from my new desk at the INSTAAR building. There is a window next to me and I can see cottonwood fluffs floating by. Right now it is lunch time and I am drinking my favorite raspberry kombucha with chia seeds. Earlier today I processed about 200 sample collecting bottles, both glass… Read More

Last week we at CIRES Education Outreach kicked-off the 2015 RECCS summer internship program! Ten Colorado community college students attended a very busy and exciting introductory week of activities to prepare them for a successful nine-week long research project with their mentors. The RECCS interns are spending the summer at a variety of research locations including labs… Read More