By Suchan Vivatsethachai `20 After the public talk, we moved to the Kona side, and while we were moving, we also stopped for a one day trip to the peak of Mauna Kea volcano. I would […]
By Suchan Vivatsethachai `20 After the public talk, we moved to the Kona side, and while we were moving, we also stopped for a one day trip to the peak of Mauna Kea volcano. I would […]
By David Wu ‘19 After presenting our research to the public at the Kona Science Café last night, we are officially done with our work for the trip! However, we are still learning and doing exciting […]
By Meghan Reisenauer ‘19 As our days in Hawaii dwindle down, we’re all hoping to get as much out of these last few moments as possible. Today was absolutely an once-in-a-lifetime experience that we will all […]
By Ju Chulakadabba ‘19 Today was the last day before our science talk to the public. We had been crunching in the past few days working on data analysis and presentation. We had our last run-through […]
By Suchan Vivatsethachai `20 Finally, it’s the day for the public talk! I woke up early to double check that our presentation slides were in good shape. Following up on comments from our professors and TAs, […]
By Meghan Reisenauer ‘19 Monday was the big day of our public presentation! In the morning, we did a final edit to the slides and ran through what we would say again. Our professors asked to […]
By Joey Noszek ’20 The past few days have been packed with work. We worked all day Saturday and Sunday to prepare for our presentation. As we sat at picnic tables inside the main cabin, we […]
By Meghan Reisenauer ‘19 It’s been a busy few days! Our presentation was scheduled for Monday evening, so we spent all of Saturday and Sunday working on our talk at the Hapuna beach cabins. It was […]
By Ju Chulakadabba ‘19 We did a full run-through of our public presentation for the first time. Everything did not go well as what we expected, but we did learn where to improve. We were working […]
By Joey Noszek ’20 We began the day by going to Kanahul’u Beach for snorkeling. I had never snorkeled before and I found snorkeling to be a great experience once I got the hang of it. […]
By Meghan Reisenauer ‘19 We began early this morning on the road to Kona to go snorkeling as a group! Once again, I realized I had visited this place before – in fact, I had snorkeled […]
By Suchan Vivatsethachai `20 Despite piles of data waiting to be analyzed, we were still lucky enough to have a chance to go snorkeling! Not far from Hapuna Beach State Park lies a small but beautiful […]
By David Wu ’19 A quick recap of the last couple days: We arrived at Hapuna Beach State Park on Thursday evening after a strenuous but rewarding hike to the beach at Waipi’o Valley. On Friday […]
By Joey Noszek ’20 Today was our first scheduled moving day. Although, due to the government shutdown, it was actually our second moving day. This morning saw us packing everything up and getting out of our […]
By Meghan Reisenauer ‘19 Today was quite a day! We moved from our lodging in Volcano to cabins next to Hapuna beach and to get there we drove along the coast, giving us some great views. […]