Matthew's blog

Monday: I gave a presentation that I had worked on last week. It was about turbidity and salinity in the estuary and their patterns. After the presentation, I recieved some reading from Nirzwan about ETMs. Using that paper and some of the data I have, I am supposed to gather some ideas for finding the ETM and suggestions for where to collect water samples. After some brainstorming, I decided that it would be possible to use information about the tides to predict where probable locations would be, as regions of high turbidity are typically found just upstream of the salt wedge.

Well, after being absent for a week, it is great to be back. This week I spent most of my time analyzing some more data from SATURN 01. I did a lot of work with salinity, turbidity, and tides.

We noticed many patterns with turbidity and salinity. When salinity is high, turbidity is low. Likewise, when turbidity is high, salinity is low. Also, there are spikes in turbidity that correlate with the change in tide.

I’m a senior at Aloha High School. I am involved in several school clubs and activities. I am a part of the Earth Club (president), Science Research Club, Marching Band (section leader), political debate club (president), National Honor Society, and the leadership program (sr class vice president).

This week, I have spent much of my time on the computer. I have greatly expanded my skill with Microsoft Excel and Matlab. We have been downloading data from the CMOP website and analyzing it with these programs. We have used them to graph data and find correlations.