By Meghan Reisenauer ‘19 I can’t believe we’ve already been in Hawaii for more than a week! Today, our small group of James, David, Josh and I went back to Richard Ha’s farm with Professor Kocar. […]
By Meghan Reisenauer ‘19 I can’t believe we’ve already been in Hawaii for more than a week! Today, our small group of James, David, Josh and I went back to Richard Ha’s farm with Professor Kocar. […]
By Suchan Vivatsethachai ‘20 Now that we have put all of the sensors around the island, we drove along the same path again to pick them all up. We went much quicker since we did not […]
By Suchan Vivatsethachai ’20 Today, I was assigned to be in a group which would go around the Big Island putting particulate matter (PM) sensors into action. After building and calibrating those sensors for almost two […]
By James Pruegsanusak ’19 Ju, Joey and I planned to go to collect more soil samples and fly a couple flights at Mr. Ha’s farm in Pepeekeo today. Before we left the house, Prof Ben Kocar […]
By Ju Chulakadabba ’19 Today we again divided into two groups. My group had Joey, James, and Ju. The other team went to deploy the air quality sensors, while our team headed to the field. Unfortunately, […]
By Josh Wilson ‘19 One of the landscapes along the way. First off, we’ve been here for a week! Wow. It feels like a month when I look back on our time here so far, but […]
By Meghan Reisenauer ‘19 On Tuesday, it was time to place our now-calibrated air particle sensors in the path of the vog plume. The plume is blown around the coast from Kilauea north to Kona, so […]
By James Pruegsanusak ‘19 Due to the government shutdown, we moved out of Kilauea Military Camp this morning. There were so many things we needed to pack, including tools, equipment, food, and personal items, but we […]
By Suchan Vivatsethachai `20 As one of the three fascinating colored beaches located on the Big Island of Hawaii, Panaluu beach, became one of destinations TREXers couldn’t miss. In the morning, we had to move out […]
By Joey Noszek ’20 The two groups from yesterday switched projects today. Therefore, I was working on the precision agriculture project. In the morning, Professor Kocar completed the connection of the FLIR camera to the drone. […]
By Meghan Reisenauer ‘19 A sea turtle rests on Punalu’u beach We began the day by splitting into two groups again. David, Josh, Chang and I went with professor Kocar to bring the equipment to our […]
By Josh Wilson ‘19 Day 6 was off to a busy start. Due to the shutdown of the federal government, we were no long able to stay at Kilaeua Military Camp within the national park. From […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]