Sierra's blog

Well, I said that I was going to blog more but that didn't really happen. I've been pretty busy with my current project which is creating time series for data from cbnc03, am169, and SandI for all of 2009. Last week the EARTH workshop was here and I was able to participate on Monday and Tuesday. On Monday, Monica, Julia and I gave a presentation to the teachers on our projects and how we see the CMOP data being used in the classroom. The teachers seemed to really enjoy our presentation and asked a lot of questions.

A lot has happened since I last blogged. First off, last week I was able to go with the oceanography camp on a one-day research cruise in the estuary. The cruise was a lot of fun. I learned a lot about lab work aboard a boat and some basic boat terminology. On Thursday after the boat cruise, I was able to extract the DNA from my water sample. After working in the lab for three hours, I was able to insert the DNA into the gel where it would set. I never did see the result of the DNA but it was a great experience to work in the lab.

Today was awesome like salty lemonade (discussed at lunch with the other high school interns).  The MATLAB training session was very informational credit to Grant. In between creating graphs of important data, we interns created a Chipotle lunch schedule. After lunch, Monica, Julia and I went for a walk and discovered a nearby duck pond. There was soccer practice occuring at the neighboring grass field. An interesting note was the floating rock in the pond that happened to look like a trashbag/umbrella.

To start off, my name is Sierra and I am a rising senior at Westview High School. So far I have been working here at CMOP for three days. In that time span I have toured the building, walked outside of the building, recieved my official ID badge, met the other high school interns, tackled MATLAB and begun to work with data in MATLAB.