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TREX 2018 Day 6: There’s fieldwork and then there’s FIELD. WORK.

January 23, 2018 | TREX 2018 | ceemit

By David Wu ‘19 There’s fieldwork and then there’s FIELD. WORK. Today, Meghan, Josh, Chang, and I did the latter. After analyzing the data collected by our drone at the corn farm on Sunday, we identified […]

TREX 2018 Day 6: Moving Day #1

January 23, 2018 | TREX 2018 | ceemit

By Joey Noszek ’20 The government shutdown ended today. That’s great! While we are still on this side of the island, we will be legally allowed to explore the park again. There is also a possibility […]

TREX 2018 Day 5: Data Collection on a Crunch

January 23, 2018 | TREX 2018 | ceemit

By David Wu ‘19 When working and researching in the field, it is vital to be able to adapt on the fly. These past couple days have really tested the group’s adaptability. For the first few […]

TREX 2018 Day 5: Talk to me, Goose!

January 22, 2018 | TREX 2018 | ceemit

By Meghan Reisenauer ‘19 Cornfields outside of Hilo Sunday was spent at a local farm outside of Hilo, belonging to a very nice man named Richard Ha. Richard told us about his work with the community […]

TREX 2018 Day 4: Sensor Work and Vog

January 21, 2018 | TREX 2018 | ceemit

By Meghan Reisenauer ‘19 Josh and Chang have a blast removing some of the sensors Today our group of seven TREXers split up for the first time in Hawaii to work on different projects. Josh, Chang, […]

TREX 2018 Day 3: Geology of Kilauea Iki Crater

January 20, 2018 | TREX 2018 | ceemit

By James Pruegsanusak ’19 This is my first time writing a blog for CEE, so here’s a self-introduction. I’m James Pruegsanusak, a junior majoring in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. Yes, that’s right – I’m a […]

TREX 2017: Monitoring sulfur dioxide at a local Hawaii school

January 22, 2017 | TREX | ceemit

[fusion_text]Installing SO2 sensors | January 22, 2017 | Daniel Richman Our sulfur dioxide monitoring project is moving forward! On Thursday, we mounted a sensor to our drone and flew it up above the Ka’u Coffee Mill […]

TREX 2017: When in Hawaii, check out the lava

January 20, 2017 | TREX | ceemit

[fusion_text]Field Trip: Lava is worth it | January 19, 2017 | Alexa Jaeger When Ben Kocar mentioned that we could potentially hike to see a current active lava flow pouring into the ocean, I was beyond […]

TREX 2017: First day of fieldwork

January 15, 2017 | TREX | ceemit

[fusion_text]Sensor Squad | Sunday January 15, 2017 | Alexa Jaeger Today was the first real day of field work. We split into two teams for the two different projects: sensor squad and the UAV team. I […]