Week Three

July 3rd, 2010

This week was slightly frustrating, as I didn't end up getting as much done as I wanted to because Elizabeth was gone, and the graduate student I'm supposed to go to for help was also gone.  After getting stuck on writing the script for cross correlating the tremor, I moved on to studying how earthquakes are located.  I'll hopefully finish the correlation script next week.  We are going to try to locate the tremor to see if there is a relationship between where the earthquakes are located and where the tremor is located.  I found a few good papers on locating earthquakes, and am working on getting through all the crazy terminology and scary equations to actually understand what is going on.  I also wrote up what I had done the first two weeks so that I actually remember what I did when it comes time to make the poster.  If I got stuck/done doing all of those things, I worked on visually going through the envelopes like I did last week.  I had only gotten through the first few days of our week of data when we moved on to correlation, but Elizabeth suggested continuing to go through it if I needed something to do.  

Good news - I signed up for a surfing lesson!  I'm kind of nervous about this, as I'm not the most amazing swimmer in the world and I don't know anyone else that is going, but I figured it would be a good way to meet people.  As of yesterday I was the only one signed up though, so if no one else signs up by next Sunday, it probably won't happen.  I'm keeping my fingers crossed it does.  I'm also thinking about signing up for a snorkeling trip later this month.  I've gone snorkeling before and loved it, so I think it'd be really fun to go.