Mercedes Martinez – Forensic Entomology – “They Went Buck Wild” – Deer 82/37 Returns!
7/4/19 – Before I even walked into the kitchen this morning, I was out by the site collecting data on Squirrel’s A and B. Surprisingly, there were no bugs in sight – not even on B. I was confused, but maybe B had gotten too cold during the night, which would deter insects from laying […]
Mercedes Martinez – Forensic Entomology – “Aw Nuts!” – The Squirrel Experiment (And More!)
7/3/19 – Today was a very important day. As soon as I was finished breakfast, I made my way up to Headquarters. Cristina greeted me, discussed the experiment set up briefly, and sent me on my merry way for some data collection. I opened the freezer, and right between a package of batteries and some […]
Carter Andrew: Conservation Metrics: Week Three
Monday: Today when I arrived to work, after making copies of the appropriate .dll files, I uploaded my programs executable to the company’s local servers so that we could begin testing across computers. Upon the first test, we found that there was a problem with my code. I would later discover it was caused a […]
Mercedes Martinez- Forensic Entomology – “Oh Deer…” – The Ballad of Deer 82/37
{VIEWER DISCRETION IS ADVISED} 7/2/19 – I woke up this morning just like any other day. I went through my morning routine as usual – I did everything except eat breakfast. I got to Headquarters at 9:30 am, which was about a 1 mile walk. After being debriefed by Cristina, the wonderful woman who helps […]
Mercedes Martinez- Forensic Entomology, Prologue
7/1/19 – Hello! My name is Mercedes Martinez and I attend Dolores High School, and through the Pinhead Institute I have had the amazing opportunity to intern at the Appleton-Whittell Research Ranch in Elgin, Arizona. I actually arrived here on Friday (6/28/19) and have been slowly learning about the surrounding wildlife and plant life that […]
Ethan Barnes: Game Dev, Week 3
Wow, its the end of week 3? Well, that’s kinda crazy! So, the last week has gone great, I checked out downtown Denver and did cool stuff at Illfonic and finished the Discord Hack Week. Well, let’s start with what I did at Illfonic, eh? At the beginning of this week helped Jeremy move the […]
Kendahl Roufa Week 4: Food Waste Management at School of Mines, Concluding my research and presenting my final findings to Mikaela and Amy
Hello Friends and welcome to my final blog post. I spent my last week working outside at the Mines campus, pulling together a presentation. The presentation covered what my goals for the internship were, what I accomplished, and considering what someone who would be picking up the job might start on. I also finished up […]
Georgia Pieper Week 4: HIMB Coral Study
Hello! This week Miranda and I retrieved data from our flow experiment. We were able to calculate the flow level for each of the lines to obtain the flow rate and water exchange rate. We also took the mass and volume of each of our 180 coral fragments for the week. We later gathered and […]
Rachael Burson – Biotechnological Engineering – week 2
Aloha, My partner Yash and I have been assigned a phenotyping project. Phenotypes are the physical characteristics of plants. One such characteristic is growth rate. The professors goal is to understand how plants growth rate changes based on environment. This is possible because Hawaii has a large range of climates from one side of the […]
Caroline Lucarelli: Cartilage Research/Equine Surgery: Week 3
I have reached the halfway point of my internship and I’m sad to say it has gone by fast. This week I worked with two different samples of cartilage and both tests ran smoothly. While running the tests I have learned more about the mechanical engineering side of this research; such as the reasoning for cartilage being […]