Greetings, everyone; I’m Taylor Holmes doing an internship at the University of Utah. I’m working in the Department of Environmental Engineering and Energy and Geoscience. Due to some issues with the Picarro I talked about last week, we had to change our focus a little for this week. While we were waiting for an expert to help us be able to get data off the computer’s interface, we started working on a project to understand better what we might be doing with the Picarro and other Gas detectors in the future. One of our professors, Dr. Xiao, Set us up with four papers from past students at the University of Utah. All four of these theses were related to our goals of detecting CO2 in CH4. All three interns spent Tuesday and Wednesday reading through the theses and making presentations that we would present to our professors on Thursday. We gained a lot of valuable Knowledge from what the past students had done with detecting gasses, and it gave us ideas for what we might want to do in the future. The presentations on Thursday to our professors went great, and Dr. McPherson took us out to lunch at a Vietnamese restaurant near campus. It was fun to go out to lunch with everyone and learn more about each other outside of the internship!
We look forward to working in the field and collecting gas samples. We may even be making an overnight trip out in the desert soon to try and find leaks of methane. I’m looking forward to getting our hands dirty and hopefully detecting some gas.
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