Well, the field work left me with some great experience but I the last two weeks of my internship I had a lot of work to do.  Of course first thing to happen after I got back from Las Vegas was the hard drive on my computer died--a manufacturer defect timed conveniently 3 weeks after the warranty was up.  Luckily, though, everything I had on it was backed up except for some of our pictures.  Other than some misplaced items I didn't lose anything that I had been working on. 

Recap:

After the deployment of the Texans, and Sandra helped me cut and retrieve the data, we left it up to Brad (grad student) to learn how to input my data into Promax so that I could pick first breaks when I got back from Las Vegas.  He ran into a lot of problems, though.  He and Sandra worked hard to input my data and stack it.  Then Sandra picked the first breaks and I used her picks to model in MacRay.  Well, the velocities I calculated were all absurdly high.  Then, inconveniently, I ended up in the emergency room.  I went in because of a high fever and a terrible headache.  Because of the severity of symptoms and the fact that I had been in the desert recently doing field work the doctors ran lots of blood work, did a CT scan, chest xray and did spinal tap.  Then I had to stay in the hospital for 2 days for observation.  It turns out that I probably just had severe virus.  I was pretty sick for about 2 days, then I was fine except for the after affects of the spinal tap which lasted for about 4 or 5 days (note that spinal headaches are not fun).  

After I got out of the hospital, Cathy (my advisor) got back from her vacation and sat down and looked at my data.  She found a couple mistakes in the way that my data was input into Promax, and in the way that it was stacked.  Unfortunately, when we looked at my data it was basically just noise.  The only instrument that we could even make a pick on at all was the uphole instrument.  She was going to try to re-cut and process my data to see if she could come  up with anything, but the out look does't look good.  I of course had to leave for Montana to start school again.  I'm disappointed, but no data is still a result.  The purpose of the project was to determine whether or not we could obtain good data about the Socorro Magma Body using the blasts from EMRTC. So, I suppose that not having to create model simplifies my poster. 

Overall, I learned an incredible amount of information during the summer.  I had the opportunity to work with people some great people from New Mexico Tech, and experience research science.  I also had the opportunity to work with people from the University of Texas-El Paso and with University of Nevada Las Vegas during field work.  Over all I gained a lot of valuable experience.