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MEMSI – The Process

January 26, 2019 | MEMSI | ceemit

By Eric Wong ’19 Today we decided to kick start our goal of tackling supermarket packaging waste by going on a field trip to a nearby supermarket to see firsthand what we’re trying to solve. At […]

TREX 2019 – When in Rome, eat spam

January 22, 2019 | TREX 2019 | ceemit

By Viban Gonzales ’20 We’ve been in Hawaii for a few days now and have settled into an evening routine. At the start of the trip, we all signed up for nights to cook dinner for […]

Global Teaching Labs: Teaching and Traveling

January 20, 2019 | Global Teaching Labs | ceemit

By Meghan Reisenauer ’19 My classes so far have been great. I can’t believe I am already two-thirds of the way done with my time at the school! I am teaching students from Year 2 (about […]

TREX Day 8: Leilani and the Super Blood Moon

January 20, 2019 | TREX 2019 | ceemit

By Rayna Higuchi ’20 Leilani Estates was right by the Fissure 8, the most destructive fissure during this past summer’s lava flows. The surrounding area has been transformed into volcanic glass; it is dangerous, unstable, and […]

Day 6: Installing Meteorological Sensors in Ocean View

January 19, 2019 | TREX 2019 | ceemit

By Janice Shiu ’20 As with most days, the group split into two teams, one focused on meteorology and the other on forestry. Given yesterday’s forestry group’s enthusiasm for 7 feet tall ferns and wading through […]

TREX Day 7: Transects and Beaches (Again…)

January 19, 2019 | TREX 2019 | ceemit

By Rayna Higuchi ’20 We started off today with data analysis, compiling and graphing the data that we have generated with transects so far. Nothing particularly insightful has popped up yet, but we’ll be studying the […]

TREX Day 6 – Plants

January 18, 2019 | TREX 2019 | ceemit

By Rayna Higuchi ’20 Sierra Rosenzweig ’20, Stephen Duncan ’20, and I kicked off our day with an early morning call into the CEE mini-UROP. We spoke to the freshmen about our experience in TREX and […]

TREX – Day 5: Transects and Sensors

January 17, 2019 | TREX 2019 | ceemit

By Janice Shiu ’20 Today, we split into three groups: one to do atmospheric profiles using drones, one to do forest transects in the Nanawale forest reserve, and one to put up a meteorological sensor and […]

TREX Off the Clock: Coffee, Beaches, and Early Morning Runs

January 16, 2019 | TREX 2019 | ceemit

By Rayna Higuchi ’20 TREX is an incredible opportunity to learn about the environment, climate, and how human interactions affect each, but we would be remiss if we came to Hawaii for two weeks and never […]

TREX 2019 Day 2: Solar Panels and Sensors

January 15, 2019 | TREX 2019 | ceemit

By Rayna Higuchi ’20 The morning dawned bright and not so early, beginning at ten with us splitting into two groups. Half went to our first outing at a small climate and air quality research station, […]

TREX Day 3 – Plant Life

January 15, 2019 | TREX 2019 | ceemit

By Rayna Higuchi ’20 Today was a pants kind of day. Our group started off adventuring into the woods behind the house to take something called a transect. Professor Dave Des Marais walked 50 feet straight […]

TREX 2019 Day 1: Setup and Exploration

January 14, 2019 | TREX 2019 | ceemit

By Rayna Higuchi ’20 Today was the first full day that the TREX group spent in Hawaii. The morning was used for setup, with different groups going to stores, setting up drones and sensors, and buying […]

TREX 2019 – Preparing for Hawaii

January 11, 2019 | TREX 2019 | ceemit

By Viban Gonzales ’20 I’m Viban Gonzales, a junior in course 1 taking 1.091: Traveling Research Environmental Experience, or TREX. Next week, we are going to the big island of Hawaii to do fieldwork and research […]

TREX Day 2- Exploring with the Plant Group

January 11, 2019 | TREX 2019 | ceemit

By Janice Shiu ’20 Today, the TREX group split into two groups, the atmosphere group and plant group. While the atmosphere group set up meteorological sensors at Kaʻū High & Pāhala Elementary School, the plant group […]

MEMSI – The Setup

January 9, 2019 | MEMSI | ceemit

By Eric Wong ’19 MEMSI [MIT Entrepreneurship and Maker Skills Integrator] is a two-week hardware startup bootcamp based in Hong Kong! This year’s cohort includes thirty-four students across a wide breadth of both undergraduate and graduate […]