Pinhead Institute 2008 Interns

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Week 7

With my last week of work here on cape cod quickly approaching, I am looking forward to getting home. However, there is still much more work to do, and unfortunately the work will not be completed by the time I leave. I am making good progress though, I am completing 12 samples per day and the chromatography makes the days go buy. I plan on starting to collect a t least some data during this upcoming week, but my main priority is to finish the chomatography. This trip has taught me a lot and I f… Continue

Posted by Ian Hebert on August 10th, 2008 at 6:28pm — 2 Comments (Add)

My Last Goodbye

A white expanse of pillow soft cotton is all I can see for miles and miles. This endless layer of fluff is blinding - I can hardly stand to glance down at it with naked eyes. To help, I throw on my pair of $6 sunglasses from Target, not caring what the other passengers think. Although it's tempting to try and break through the multilayer airplane window, I could probably barely fit my head through the elongated oval, let alone count on the "sturdy" looking cloud bed to break my fall. A few more… Continue

Posted by Meghan Cain on August 6th, 2008 at 12:29pm — No Comments (Add)

Week 6

Things here in Woods Hole are settling down into routine, with work Monday through Friday from 9-5 and weekends exploring the Woods Hole area. Learning how to do the chromatography was very interesting even though each one takes time. Although unfortunately I will not be here to be able to analyze these samples, my advisor has suggested meeting up after the project is finished to discuss the results. Although I am only getting to participate in a small part of this project, I am glad that I will… Continue

Posted by Ian Hebert on August 4th, 2008 at 7:31am — 1 Comment (Add)

My last week in Santa Barbara.

Sitting in the office straddling two cardboard boxes trying to tape them together. My 55 lb bag is hidden within the boxes and is getting all prepared for the ride home. That's when it hit me, I leave Santa Barbara on Tuesday. How can this be possible? I have learned so much and yet I know there is so much more out there to learn. I will really miss getting to walk into Horny Toad every morning. It's all so weird to think that in just six weeks I have gone from organizing fabrics, to having a p… Continue

Posted by Erin Thompson on July 31st, 2008 at 7:30pm — No Comments (Add)

Week 5

Week 5 here in Woods Whole went as quickly as the rest of them and progress is starting to be made with the sediment samples. On Friday I finished running the samples through the solvent extractor, quite a chore with over 120 samples extracted. Next we start the chomatography where we will seperate the different organics to make for easier identification. This is a slow process as each column takes at least a few hours. This is a big step towards analyzing the data which should be much more inte… Continue

Posted by Ian Hebert on July 27th, 2008 at 11:31am — 5 Comments (Add)

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