our individual projects

Post date: Jul 26, 2013 5:38:39 PM

I really have been enjoying my time at the History of Life Internship. For the first couple of weeks, we only did data collection from books, but recently we have been working on our individual projects. I am in a group with two other people. Our individual project is the following: The effect of Cope’s Rule and Bergmann’s Rule on ostracods, during periods of constant high temperature. We use the data we have collected, and we use the program R. This is my first time programming, but so far R has not been too hard to use. Listening to the lab meetings every Tuesday has been interesting as well. It’s fun to learn about the different projects that are being researched in the same building we work in.

The lectures on Wednesday are interesting as well, because they teach so much about the different fields in earth science. Yesterday we went to Berkeley for a field trip. We got to work with and see different fossils. Some neat fossils I saw were a well preserved wooly mammoth and a saber tooth tiger.

We also saw the Memorial Stadium (the picture) and Strawberry Creek, which were both affected by an earthquake caused by the Hayward Faults. On the whole, it has been a very educative experience!