TREX

By Ju Chulakadabba ‘19 Two weeks in Hawaii went by so fast. Today, our plan was to pack everything up, canoe in the ocean, and enjoy the last day in Hawaii. We packed everything up in the […]

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By Meghan Reisenauer ‘19 Well, our trip to Hawai’i has come to an end. I write to you now from the San Francisco airport on our way back to Boston! Thursday was our last day on […]

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By Suchan Vivatsethachai `20 In the morning, we planned to do lava hike at Hawaii Volcanoes National Park. We had planned to do this hike last week, but did not have a chance to because we […]

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By Ju Chulakadabba ‘19 Today, I woke up at little early… 2:30 AM to be exact. The reason I woke up this early was because of the “super blue blood moon.” This was such a rare […]

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By Joey Noszek ’20 I know that I stated in a previous blog that the work part of TREX was over. Well, I was not entirely correct. There was still some work to do today, though […]

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By Meghan Reisenauer ‘19 Wednesday was our last full day in Hawaii! We definitely made the most of it. In the morning, our TA Ben asked if anyone was ready to leave after breakfast to head […]

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By Ju Chulakadabba ‘19 Today was the first no-work day for all of the TREXers. Our plan was to move from Puhana beach to a hotel in Kona and to go to Mauna Kea— the biggest mountain […]

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By Suchan Vivatsethachai `20 After the public talk, we moved to the Kona side, and while we were moving, we also stopped for a one day trip to the peak of Mauna Kea volcano. I would […]

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By David Wu ‘19 After presenting our research to the public at the Kona Science Café last night, we are officially done with our work for the trip! However, we are still learning and doing exciting […]

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By Meghan Reisenauer ‘19 As our days in Hawaii dwindle down, we’re all hoping to get as much out of these last few moments as possible. Today was absolutely an once-in-a-lifetime experience that we will all […]

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By Ju Chulakadabba ‘19 Today was the last day before our science talk to the public.  We had been crunching in the past few days working on data analysis and presentation. We had our last run-through […]

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By Suchan Vivatsethachai `20 Finally, it’s the day for the public talk! I woke up early to double check that our presentation slides were in good shape. Following up on comments from our professors and TAs, […]

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By Meghan Reisenauer ‘19 Monday was the big day of our public presentation! In the morning, we did a final edit to the slides and ran through what we would say again. Our professors asked to […]

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