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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
By David Wu ’19 Today Josh, Meghan, James and I returned to the corn farm. If our car battery hadn’t died, I would say that the day was full of triumphs. You might recall that the […]
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 […]