Day 5

This morning, Joe checked in with each of us and asked about our progress in the labs. When we got to our lab, Hannah and I helped our advisor measure some of the plastic bags that needed to be ordered and look on amazon for materials/equipment that were needed for our experiments. At noon, all of the interns attended a seminar on hyper spectral imaging by David Messinger, the head of the imaging science department. He talked about the analysis of the Gough Map (shown below) of Britain using hyper spectral imaging techniques. I found the talk and the powerpoint slides to be very interesting. After, our advisor, Chris, took a look at our abstracts and gave Hannah and I some feedback. We didn't have to change much of what we had originally written which was good! Later in the afternoon before I left, Hannah and I helped Chris with checking that all the of the lab equipment got back from Australia (where it was previously for a couple months). We opened numerous pelican cases to check if the materials that were supposed to be there were there and checked the items off a checklist. Chris said that the plan for next week was for us to write up plans/outlines for our experiments and start experimenting. This first week has been great overall and I am excited for the next few weeks!