Andy Goodliffe was right. Geophysical equipment almost never works when you need it the most. That's how I can describe this past week, setting up the seismic data from Alaska for further analysis. I lost count how many times something went wrong that stopped us in our tracks, ranging from missing waveforms to errors in joining database tables in certain manners, among other difficulties. In addition, a problem entering parameters in a program called Cluster set us back over the weekend, as Dr. Pavlis said he would need to fix it himself. I feel the future of this project's progress will involve this concept: "hope for the best, but expect the worst". I'd like to see the geophysical equipment cooperate with me, as that will help me to better understand the geologic forces underneath Bering Glacier. But I must also keep Andy G.'s words of wisdom in mind, as they already have merit in my young career as a seismologist.

On a lighter note, Dr. Pavlis introduced me to an interesting program called iView3D. For those who don't know what it is, it lets you view earthquake locations and geologic structures on a given landscape using simple 3D graphics. One file he gave me shows earthquake hypocenters underneath Mt. St. Elias that appear to line up in a rough plane dipping to the NW. The primary target area is the Bering Glacier area to the west of Mt. St. Elias, and my job is to get more accurate earthquake locations using the data I'm trying to manipulate. Here's hoping I'll get more promising results over this coming week, maybe even something I can use in iView3D. Until next week, see you later.