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Week 10- Final Week

Submitted by Meagan Flier on August 23, 2011 - 2:37pm
            Sadly, last week was my final week as a CMOP intern. The final presentations for the project went well; this internship has definitely improved my presentation skills because I now feel more comfortable getting up in front of people to discuss my research and work. Having the two other interns, Cynthia Boshell and Althea Walker, to stand up there with me and present as a group was also a big help.

Week 9- Final Presentations

Submitted by Meagan Flier on August 15, 2011 - 9:38am

     Week 9 was rather hectic; all of the interns, including myself, were trying to finish up their projects and prepare final presentations. I had the pleasure of discovering that the data for one of the scenarios I filtered was incorrect at the last moment, so I had to re-filter all of that data as fast as possible before our final presentations. Overall I think the final presentations for both CMOP and CRITFC ran smoothly.

Week 8- Time Running Out

Submitted by Meagan Flier on August 8, 2011 - 9:45am
            Benjamin Franklin once said, “Do not squander time for that is the stuff life is made of”. Though I have followed this theory of Franklin’s throughout my project, the internship spans a mere ten weeks, and there is only so much one can do in the given amount of time. That being said, I believe I have accomplished quite a lot in the eight weeks that I have been an intern at CMOP.

Week 7 - Just keep filtering, filtering, filtering

Submitted by Meagan Flier on August 1, 2011 - 9:40am

     So, week 7 and not much new to say. I recently received the finalized values for both the salmon and lamprey filters, so I can now go ahead and start the whole filtering process consisting of running several c-codes and various Matlab scripts. Assuming everything runs according to plan, I will have figures of the number of filter criteria hours satisfied over the whole estuary, movies of the figures, and time series graphs at the end of the process.

..and We Have Figures!

Submitted by Meagan Flier on July 25, 2011 - 10:28am
     After weeks of cursing Unix and Matlab, I’m starting to appreciate them more each day. For the entirety of this internship at CMOP I’ve been struggling with c-code and Matlab scripts to filter the output from SELFE and be able to provide tangible evidence of the filtered data. I’ve had some success along the way, but my work has more or less followed the “one step back for every two steps forward” motto.

NSF Visit

Submitted by Meagan Flier on July 18, 2011 - 10:18am
            This last week was the National Science Foundation’s visit to CMOP. Since NSF provides the core funding for CMOP, it was important for the NSF site visit team to have a good understanding of what CMOP is, what it does, and as Vanessa Green, the director of higher education, would say the “so what factor”.

Matlab Status: Busy…2 Hours Later: Still Busy

Submitted by Meagan Flier on July 11, 2011 - 9:23pm

            I swore to myself after I took a class about it that I would never use Matlab again. It’s not intuitive at all, it has a help function that only really helps you if you know the name of the command you’re trying to execute, and it resembles a dictionary in another language that you would like to speak but can’t because the dictionary only shows you the meanings of the words rather than how to string them together. Yet here I am day-in and day-out relearning Matlab and its ridiculous language.

Week 3- Politics & Science

Submitted by Meagan Flier on July 5, 2011 - 10:44am
          I began week three of my internship with a progress report, which demonstrated the general process I’ve been following to filter the SELFE data and generate figures as well as what values the other two interns, Cynthia Boshell and Althea Walker, and I are using for the lamprey and salmon filter values. After the progress report we met Romeo Wisco, creator of the hydro-system simulator HYDSIM, to learn about his model and how it might be incorporated into our project.

Week 2-SELFE Model

Submitted by Meagan Flier on June 27, 2011 - 9:29am
            Week 2 interning at CMOP has been much more relaxed now that I have a better grasp of the goals for using the circulation model, SELFE, to generate figures and evaluate the changes in available habitat opportunity in the Columbia River. This week I was able to develop and correctly execute a processing strategy to run the necessary scripts that yield the four physical habitat parameters (elevation, temperature, salinity, and velocity) considered critical to salmon and lamprey survival.

Week 1- Hit the Ground Running

Submitted by Meagan Flier on June 17, 2011 - 4:57pm

     My first week as a CMOP intern has been mostly about assimilation to the entire process, CMOP, and my specific project as a whole; I've definitely had to hit the ground running. That being said, I'm excited and looking forward to becoming more involved in the particulars of my project, which consists of using models to evaluate the changes in habitat opportunity for salmon and lamprey amidst variations in hydropower operation and climate change.

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