Carter Andrew: Conservation Metrics: Week 6
Side note: I got an extension!! I will be staying on at conservation metrics until week 8 🙂 Monday: I worked on formally documenting the projects that I had been working on. I have never done this and it felt good to explain everything I had been working on. Besides that, I had a pretty […]
Wiley Holbrooke: Okavango Wilderness Project, Week Two
   I am continuing my work with the Okavango Wilderness Project (OWP). This week has been filled with nonstop packing. The Okavango wilderness project is attempting to depart on the 19th of July. For this to happen, it’s all hands on deck to get the nessecary equipment needed for a month on the […]
Rider Johnson, Hydraulic Modeling Lab, Final Week
It’s hard to believe that six weeks have already passed! This week was another interesting week. I spent most of it working on the Folsom dam model, doing the same things as last week. We were measuring different flow rates through the bulkhead gate and how much pressure came from each different flow rate. To […]
Rachael Burson – Biotechnological Engineering – Week 4
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 professor’s 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 […]
Lucy Wesson: Communication and Learning Lab at the University of Chicago, Week 3
Week Three at the Communication and Learning Lab Week three at the C.A.L Lab has been slightly slower than the past two due to the fact that we are done with our first condition of the experiment! At the moment, we are trying to re-code the game to accommodate the new condition. That also means […]
Andrew Winkelmann: Environmental Engineering, Week 5
This week, we completed a successful test of the sensor network, using temperature sensors in place of the CO2 sensors. With three nodes, data was gathered, sent through the main node to a computer, which printed the data to a CSV file, which was then used to create a data map on a web page. […]
Trey Schwerdtfeger: Naval Architecture, Week Four
I can’t believe this internship is almost over. It has been such an amazing experience/opportunity to be able to come out here t0 Mystic CT, to work here at the Mystic Seaport Museum. I have learned so many different things here that I will never forget, as well as made so many connections. The semester […]
Carter Andrew: Conservation Metrics: Week Five
Monday: My first plan for the week was to take a more careful look at the firmware for the devices (Audiomoths) I had been working on. I started on this project at the end of the previous week and did not had enough time to understand what was going on in the code. My first […]
Wiley Holbrooke, Okavango Wilderness Project: Week 1
I’m Wiley Holbrooke, and I am doing an internship with the Okavango wilderness Project (OWP) in Botswana. The OWP is an organization that is researching the Okavango Delta, the worlds largest internal delta. They complete these research projects by spending a month or so paddling down the Okavango Delta on makoros (canoes) and record the […]
Caroline Lucarelli: Cartilage Research/Equine Surgery: Week 6
My internship is officially over and the ending was bittersweet. I am happy to return to my small mountain town but sad to leave all the great people I met behind. My last week at the clinic was very fun, on Monday I observed a neurectomy. This neurectomy was performed due to the extensive […]
Tybee Marine Science Center Week 6 Kamryn Corzine
My last week at the Tybee Marine Science Center was filled with fun and saying goodbyes. This week I got to meet a few new animals that decided to show up at the center, like terrapin eggs, and big stingrays. As my week came to an end I realized how much I’ve learned over the […]
Bryce Lambert: Work With REEF: Week 3
This is my third week working at the reef and I did very similar work to what I did during week two. Tech trek, a summer camp of all middle school girls, is spending 2 weeks on campus, and Scott wanted most of his employees working with this group. Scott also wanted some people to […]