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GOOOOODBYEEEE EVERYONEEE!!!

Hello everyone...Can you believe it, our 8 weeeks are up? Sometimes it feels like I just started yesterday and other times I feel like I'v been here my whole life! Wow, this has been such an amazing, awesome experience, I seriously wouldn't change it for anything ;]. It has been such a pleasure to work with such awesome, smart people (shout outs to Matthew, Monica, Nirzwan, Grant, Karen, Antonio...the list goes on!)

WEEK 5 some more...

So this week has been pretty slooow...It doesn't seem that there's that much to do after analyzing the ETM data. Sooo we're going to work on our presentations for the ASE Symposium Aug 16...by the way anyone who's reading this is invited...it's at the University of Portland time: to be determined...

WEEK 5 7/14/08-7/18/08

Sooo, you all may have noticed there were no h.s. interns in the building last Friday...that is because we were all donw at OSU for the ASE Midsummer Conference. So, most of us took the bus down there Friday morning and we all stayed in the dorms at Weatherford Hall.
Overall, it was not bad, except for some boring sessions like Life as a Chemical Oceanographer and going down to CORE Labs to look at tubes of mud -_-. The best presentation by far was Pathways to Civil and Structural Engineering by a civil/structural from CH2M HILL.

WEEK 4 7/7/08-7/11/08

On Monday, we gave a presentation to Antonio and that went well. Then after that, I spoke to Lydie Herfort about the data from her cruise last August where they took samples during an ETM. Then, I imported the data into Excel with minor difficulties since it was in a weird format. Then on Wednesday we had to give a presentation to our parents in the evening of what we've been working on all this time and our long term and short term goals. Then Grant wanted to put the cruise data into Excel, so I started formatting the data by hand which was taking like 5 years.

WEEK 3 6/30/08-6/4/08

Hurrah! day off tomorrow. =]

Well, this week, we've been continuing to analyze the graphs. I've been googling ETM and reading up on it and talking to Grant about the processes. I made a diagram of what's going on in the estuary regarding the saltwedge, the fresh water, mixing, and the ETM. I had to revise it so many times but it's pretty awesome ;]
Also, we were trying to find out what depth Saturn 01 is at but it does not have a pressure sensor on it -_-

We had Safety Training...boring, but since we're not going to be in a lab we didn't have to stay for the whole thing.

WEEK 2 6/23/08-6/27/08

Yay, I finally got my own account so I can log on..sweet.
So, this week my partner's not here so I'm working on my own...boo... but so far I downloaded Saturn 01 data from the website, imported it into Excel and tried to find correlations between the change in salinity and turbidity. I also calculated the moving averages of the change in salinity and turbidity so as to try and filter the data and see the patterns more clearly.

Week 1 6/16/08-6/20/08

So far, things have been interesting; I wouldn’t quite say fun, but a learning experience. We went to the CMOP website, downloaded CSV targets for Saturn 01 and Saturn 03, we did download data from some other stations, but our focus is on Saturn. We imported them into Excel and did correlation analysis and made graphs. We also tried to filter the data in Excel, but were not very successful.

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