Earthquakes

Post date: Jul 27, 2012 4:42:13 PM

During the past few weeks in the paleobiology lab we have been thinking about our projects and we have somewhat started on them. I am not sure if every department has to do a project but we will. We know we will be doing a presentation at the end of the summer where we tell the other interns what we have been researching, but that’s not it, we have been told about the AGU conference and we will be also creating a poster to present there. I am very excited about it because I have never actually had a chance to go to that type of event.

Wednesday is still my favorite day of the week. Today we went on a fieldtrip to Los Trancos to see some of the changes in the land that the earthquakes have brought about. It was a great experience, very fun and informative. We learned about seismology and the new technology that is being developed to give people a warning before an earthquake happens. Among other things we talked about the structure of buildings and how we know for sure that engineers have to start designing all the buildings in a way that they could be resistant to major shaking during earthquakes. That makes me kind of interested and I am thinking to so some research to see if engineering is an option for me. It was very fun today.

I can’t believe the internship is almost over! I don’t want it to end I am having so much fun this summer, I am very thankful to all the people that have worked with us making us a little wiser and teaching us more of the interesting stuff Earth Science is about.

Paleobiologists team

From left to right; Robert, Ngoc, Mayra (me), Jenny and Connie.

-Enjoying the last few weeks