{"id":406,"date":"2016-06-15T18:37:37","date_gmt":"2016-06-16T00:37:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ciresblogs.colorado.edu\/reccs\/?p=406"},"modified":"2016-06-15T18:37:37","modified_gmt":"2016-06-16T00:37:37","slug":"communication-workshop-and-noaa-tour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ciresblogs.colorado.edu\/reccs\/2016\/06\/15\/communication-workshop-and-noaa-tour\/","title":{"rendered":"Communication Workshop and NOAA Tour"},"content":{"rendered":"

June 8th<\/sup>, 2016<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"Martian<\/a>Today I met up with the other interns at the Sustainability, Energy and Environment Complex (SEEC) building at Research Park. We filmed our elevator speeches which were a 1 minute long summary of who we were, who we were working with, what our projects over the summer consisted of and the importance of our project. Afterwards, we participated in a communication workshop that involved a discussion about communicating and the scientific process. We learned the importance of defining your research question, keeping good records, making a work plan, working with collaborators, choosing an effective title for the project, and using a poster to tell a story. We then partnered up with another intern and came up with a quick scientific poster. Taylor and I came up with a ridiculous poster which asked, \u201cWhat is the glucose content of martian moss?\u201d and presented that our research was primarily located on mars, and that we determined a new species of moss that had an incredibly high sugar content, which had implications for lollipop production. It was hysterical seeing what the other interns came up with!<\/p>\n

After the communication workshop was over, we heard from Robert Anderson, a geomorphologist working at the Boulder Critical Zone Observatory (CZO). He went into detail about some of his geology research and other research projects that had relevance. I confess that I\u2019m not entirely intrigued by geology, so I did find myself straining somewhat to pay close attention. Regardless, I did learn a few geology concepts I hadn\u2019t considered before, and it was fascinating to hear the history of the landscape formation of Boulder. It definitely made me have a greater appreciation for the natural beauty of my surroundings.<\/p>\n

\"Space<\/a>After the presentation, we all carpooled over to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) for a tour. The tour consisted of 4 presenters in different departments. A major highlight of the tour was seeing the Science on a Sphere demonstration which consisted of a large sphere suspended from the ceiling which acted as the projection screen surface that five different projectors cast an image on. The sphere represented a digital globe with an extensive amount of data sets. The sphere had information about real-time satellite images of the earth, precipitation, forecasts, ocean flow, land and water temperatures, vegetation, chlorophyll concentration, travel trajectories, and even Facebook friend connections! It was mesmerizing!! Here is a link with information about the Science on a Sphere http:\/\/sos.noaa.gov\/What_is_SOS\/index.html<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Today was a lot of fun and extremely informative. I\u2019m wiped out! It was a bit of information overload!!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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