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This week, I've been transitioning into the building phase of my project. I'm building a calibration facility that we can use to calibrate the ECO Triplets in lab. Here are just a few of the things I have to consider in my design:

-The system cannot leak. Leaks lead to failures and failure of the chamber means no calibration. We also will be dealing with very small, precise (as precise as possible, at least) concentrations in solution, so losing dye, bead, or phytoplankton mass to leaks needs to be avoided.

Hi All,

Wow! I am already half done with my internship and it feels as if I have accomplished nothing, and yet so much at the same time.

Beginning with midterm presentations and ending with the NSF site visit it seems like things are going by so fast and progressing, while I am standing still.

On Monday the interns presented their research and we learned about each project's advances and its struggles. It was interesting to hear the other intern’s presentations and how they have been progressing with their research in during the internship. I am looking forward to learning more about these projects at the final presentations.

This past week was an eventful one with the visit of the National Science Foundation (NSF), who is the core source of funding for CMOP. I was able to partake in a lunch and met some interesting professionals from around the country. I was fortunate to have been a part of this experience because not all past interns have been able to meet with the NSF representatives. I was very excited to meet a professor from the ASU School of Sustainability, who I look forward to working with. With the representatives, I was able to explain my project details and other CMOP experiences.

Monday were the intern mid-term presentations. My presentation went very smoothly, and I was excited to hear about what the other interns are doing and see the results of their research to date. It was particularly interesting to consider the broader connections between everybody's research. We are all doing such different projects, but they all fit into a bigger picture.

 As of Friday 7/15/11 all the basic functionality of the commenting form is in, in theory. In practicality, there is probably at least one critical corner-case bug that I don’t know about. But this week will be centered around preparing for a preliminary launch. This week’s new features include: a beautiful graphical start and end time selecting system, the ability to show/hide the various parts of the form, comment submission times, and a new primary-key free annotation table.