Post date: Jul 29, 2013 8:36:39 PM
We are on the 6th week of the program and it is simply great.
After collecting all the data available for Echinoderms, we get to play with it and decide on a project. I am partnering up with Cathy and Alondra to investigate the effect mass extinctions had in the size evolution of Crinoids. We discovered in the process that neither C02 nor oxygen were influencial in the evolution of size of this class.
Our project is going great and we are still figuring out more about Crinoids. We hope to have a more concrete discovery with some more data analysis.
The best part of the summer is hanging out with the other interns, I have met lots of people and they are super fun. We are becoming really good friends and I have learned to play football among other things.
We visited Berkeley and saw evidence of the Hayward fault in out last fieldtrip, that was fantastic too!
I am having lots of fun! I wish summer didn't go by so fast!