
By Peter Duff ’20 On our sixth day on the island, we had a singular mission; ascend Mauna Kea, and do so in one piece. Mauna Kea is a dormant volcano, stretching ear-popping 13800 feet into […]
By Peter Duff ’20 On our sixth day on the island, we had a singular mission; ascend Mauna Kea, and do so in one piece. Mauna Kea is a dormant volcano, stretching ear-popping 13800 feet into […]
By Rayna Higuchi ’20 REX Day 5: Mauna Kea! Today, we drove up Mauna Kea, the second-highest mountain on the island. At the top, there was none of the heat nor humidity we have come to […]
By Rayna Higuchi ’20 Today was an exciting disappointment. We were originally supposed to head over to Leilani to see newly formed lava fields, but never got a call back on whether today was okay for […]
The Laboratory for Multiscale Characterization and Materials Design, led by Esther and Harold E. Edgerton Career Development Professor Admir Masic, was featured in The Tech. Graduate student Linda Seymour was interviewed for the profile and spoke […]
Assistant Professor Ben Kocar led a group of students to Hawaii this Independent Activities Period (IAP) to conduct environmental research as part of CEE’s Traveling Research Environmental eXperiences (TREX) program. The students were tasked with executing […]
By Ju Chulakadabba ‘19 On the last day of TREX 2018, we spent most of the day on a plane since we left Hawaii the night before, kept flying from Hawaii to San Fransisco, then San Francisco […]
By Joey Noszek ’20 Our last day in Hawaii was interesting. We began the day by canoeing in the Pacific Ocean. Afterward, we toured a coffee plantation in Kona. And we ended the day with dinner […]
By Ju Chulakadabba ‘19 Two weeks in Hawaii went by so fast. Today, our plan was to pack everything up, canoe in the ocean, and enjoy the last day in Hawaii. We packed everything up in the […]
By Meghan Reisenauer ‘19 Well, our trip to Hawai’i has come to an end. I write to you now from the San Francisco airport on our way back to Boston! Thursday was our last day on […]
By Suchan Vivatsethachai `20 Today was the last day of our TREX trip in Hawaii. We had been here for 2 weeks, but we did so many things that it felt like we had been there […]
By Suchan Vivatsethachai `20 In the morning, we planned to do lava hike at Hawaii Volcanoes National Park. We had planned to do this hike last week, but did not have a chance to because we […]
By Ju Chulakadabba ‘19 Today, I woke up at little early… 2:30 AM to be exact. The reason I woke up this early was because of the “super blue blood moon.” This was such a rare […]
By Joey Noszek ’20 I know that I stated in a previous blog that the work part of TREX was over. Well, I was not entirely correct. There was still some work to do today, though […]
By Meghan Reisenauer ‘19 Wednesday was our last full day in Hawaii! We definitely made the most of it. In the morning, our TA Ben asked if anyone was ready to leave after breakfast to head […]
By Ju Chulakadabba ‘19 Today was the first no-work day for all of the TREXers. Our plan was to move from Puhana beach to a hotel in Kona and to go to Mauna Kea— the biggest mountain […]