Hooray!  My internship started!

June 23rd, 2010

Well, I just flew into L.A. and finally started my internship at Caltech today!  The campus is so beautiful and on a totally random note, there are palm trees everwhere! Since I spent most of the day getting introduced to the campus and the project, I figured I would type up my plan of attack for the summer and some expecations.

I hope in the following two weeks I can become pretty comfortable with the software I'm using (Linux, GMT, and MB System).  I want to read as much papers as I can on previous work relating to my project and build up my background knowledge on the geology and history of the area where we will be deploying the OBSs.

The next part of the internship, I want to start finding and working with datasets relevent to our area.  I want to create maps of datasets and most importantly, actually understand what I'm looking at.  

In the two-three week period before the research cruise, I want to be ready to prepare some very pretty final versions of bathymetry and gravity maps and write some cute code. 

Then I will be off on a boat!!!

As for expectations, I hope this internship helps me figure out what direction I want to take after my undergrad studies (I have less than a year AHHH!) and gives me some valuable research experience.