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TREX Day 8: Thermal camera

By James Pruegsanusak ‘19 With the forward looking infrared (FLIR) thermal camera attached on the drone, Prof Ben Kocar drove David, Josh, Meghan and I to Mr. Ha’s farm again today for more data collection, both […]

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TREX 2018 Day 8: Retrievers

By Joey Noszek ’20 Yesterday, the other group placed particle sensors around the island from Pahala to Kona. Today, we had to retrieve them. We would have preferred to have the sensors collect data for longer […]

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TREX 2018 Day 8: Second Chances

By Ju Chulakadabba ’19 Do you remember when you do things for the first time? They do not normally go well, right? For this trip, things did not go well either when we did them the […]

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TREX 2018 Day 8: Iceman returns

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. […]

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TREX 2018 Day 7: Spreading the Sensors

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 […]

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TREX 2018 Day 7: To Kona and Back!

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 […]

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TREX 2018 Day 7: Plume Chasers

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 […]

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TREX Day 6: Sensors and Sunsets

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 […]

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TREX 2018 Day 6: The Black Sand Beach

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 […]

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TREX 2018 Day 7: A Very Rainy Day

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. […]

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