Well not much has been going on the past week or so. Dr. Hole went on vacation and I'm working on making some graphs from old data relating pick quality to the distance of the receiver to the shot. Since the open file report accompanying the archived 1979 USGS survey results had all the information I needed, I just retyped the shot data and receiver coordinates into Excel and made some bar graphs. The OFR assigned "weights" from 0 to 4 for each pick, with 0 having very little uncertainty and 4 as highly questionable. It's hard to see a clear relationship between distance and pick quality because of the geometry of the deployments and all of the geology in the region I think, but generally the better picks are closer to the shot... 42 shots were taken with various receiver deployments so I plotted them on ArcMap too since I already had the coordinates.

I'm not exactly sure what my project is (looking at the 1979 data to determine good locations for receivers...?), but hopefully when Dr. Hole gets back next week something interesting will happen.

Last weekend I stopped by Steppin' Out, a summer street festival in Blacksburg. There were some neat vendors and this one pottery booth caught my eye. They made some really crazy looking mugs with faces on them, and I bought one to brighten up my office.

My roommate's friend also took us hiking at the Cascades, and there was an amazing waterfall at the end!

I also found the Huckleberry Trail (thanks for the advice, Mollie!) and walked over to the mall and back because I had a day to kill. The scenery was nice but I think I will bike next time. I'll just have to figure how to get onto the trail without climbing over a gate.