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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.

My name is Julia, and I just started here as a high school intern. I will be a senior next year at Wilson High School in Portland. So far, CMOP is a wonderful place to work. My senior mentor in Antonio Baptista, and my frontline mentor is Pat. Up until now the other intern that I work with, Sierra, and I have been learning how to use MATLAB and have started comparing the data that comes in from the Saturn network to the models.

Hello!

My name is Monica and I recently graduated from Westview High School and I plan to attend Portland State University this fall. I am happy to be back for the fourth summer at CMOP. These past years have been great and I hope this year will not be an exception. My senior mentor is Antonio Baptista but this year my frontline mentor is Grant. I will write more soon...

Cheers,

Monica

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.

I started on the Tuesday of this week working with Suzanne Delorenzo. This is my second year working witha CMOP graduate student and I am really excited to be back. I am continuing my work  in Brad Tebo and Peter Zuber's lab. This week I extracted DNA from samples that Suzanne had collected during May of this year and set up the Stable Isotope Probing (SIP) using an aerchea called halobacterium.

I have gathered more data this week to draw a reasonable/firm conclusion before I started narrowing down my focus.

I re-did older experiments because I started gathering data at higher frequency than before (Before: 1-1,000 Hz, Now: 1-10000 Hz) as higher frequency gives more distict data set.

This week I took Bill Lambert's class on Questionnaire Design and Data Entry using Epidata. I will most likely be conducting surveys and questionnaires for my internship. This class was helpful because it taught me how to identify a strong survey, and how to design one. I have never designed surveys so this was a crucial class. It was extremely helpful because it taught me the keys to a good survey and how to avoid mistakes. Together as a class we went though existing surveys, and identified what changes were needed and what was fine.

6-21-10
Out for wedding

6-22-10
High School Intern lunch, lab meeting, SEM class

6-23-10
Re-made LBAmp plates with 2x as much Amp as per Rick. The recipe in the MEDIA folder indicates 2mL of 25ug/ml per 1L of media solution, however it should be 2mL of 50ug/ml per 1L of media solution. For all future plates, recipe has been corrected.
SEM class
Transformation procedure completed for all 1-4. Plates incubated overnight at 37C

6-24-10

Last week I moved from a desk covered in articles to a little bench clearing in the lab. I reveled in the opportunity to finally observe the chemistry I've been reading about. Already I've spent many days becoming well acquainted with the lab's spectophotometer, Lambda 20. I can tell already I will have a particularly special friendship with this instrument for the summer.