Carter Andrew: Conservation Metrics: Week One
Hello everybody! My name is Carter Andrew and this summer I have the honor of attending Conservation Metrics in Santa Cruz, California. Conservation Metrics is a marine conservation company centered around data analysis, machine learning, and wildlife acoustics. At Conservation Metrics, we use machine learning with intuitive pipelines to help make predictions on past, current, […]
Kendahl Roufa Week 3: Continuing my research on food waste and teaching myself to code Python
Hello Friends! This past week was nowhere near as exciting as last because all of my fieldwork was canceled due to bad weather. Fear not though, I still did some crazy exciting things throughout the week. I started the week ready to get my hands dirty outside on a farm, but the steady downpour prevented Mikaela […]
Georgia Pieper Week 3: HIMB Coral Study
Hello, hope everyone is doing well! This week at the HIMB, Miranda and I were able to finish all the set up and work needing to be done in order to help our experiment go underway. Rob Toonen, Miranda, Evan, and I were able to take out a research boat to Humbug reef and collect […]
Rachael Burson – Biotechnological engineering – Week 1
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 […]
Claire Shaver- Behavioral Science, Prologue
Hello, my name is Claire Shaver. I attend Telluride High School and this summer I have the privilege to intern at the Center on Human Development and Disability (CHDD) at the University of Washington in Seattle. I arrived in Seattle on Thursday and I was able to arrive at my host family’s house with no […]
Gregor Remec, LASP, Software Development, Week Four!
This week was super interesting. Early in the week I was programming in Java. Java is super nice for me because in school I took computer science class where we focused only on Java, so I knew what I was doing. The project was to create a card game. I chose blackjack because it is […]
Elena Scheibler, Pediatric Spinal Cord Research: Week 2
This past week has been my second week interning for pediatric spinal cord research and rehabilitation, and it has been amazing. On Monday, we conducted the last experiment for our safety and feasibility study. Things ran a lot smoother this time, as we had learned from the past mistakes and brought a printed-out protocol to […]
Danny Bynum: Architecure, Week 2
This week I continued my research on sea level rise and its impact on people and communities. My mentor, Mr. Strang, visited the Miami office on Thursday and Friday. I met with him and we discussed the research I have done. He is going to give a presentation next month about sea level rise and […]
Andrew Winkelmann: Environmental Engineering, Week One
Hi! My name is Andrew Winkelmann and I am from Ridgway, Colorado. I have the privilege of being a Pintern, and I am excited to share about my internship. My friend Sean and I are aiding Dr. Brian McPherson and the rest of the Carbon Science and Research Group (CSER) at the University of Utah. […]