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TREX 2019: The Mission to Ascend Mauna Kea

January 22, 2019 | TREX 2019 | ceemit

By Peter Duff ’20 On our sixth day on the island, we had a singular mission; ascend Mauna Kea, and do so in one piece. Mauna Kea is a dormant volcano, stretching ear-popping 13800 feet into […]

TREX – Day 5: Mauna Kea!

January 22, 2019 | TREX 2019 | ceemit

By Rayna Higuchi ’20 REX Day 5: Mauna Kea! Today, we drove up Mauna Kea, the second-highest mountain on the island. At the top, there was none of the heat nor humidity we have come to […]

TREX 2019 – When in Rome, eat spam

January 22, 2019 | TREX 2019 | ceemit

By Viban Gonzales ’20 We’ve been in Hawaii for a few days now and have settled into an evening routine. At the start of the trip, we all signed up for nights to cook dinner for […]

Day 6: Installing Meteorological Sensors in Ocean View

January 19, 2019 | TREX 2019 | ceemit

By Janice Shiu ’20 As with most days, the group split into two teams, one focused on meteorology and the other on forestry. Given yesterday’s forestry group’s enthusiasm for 7 feet tall ferns and wading through […]

TREX Day 7: Transects and Beaches (Again…)

January 19, 2019 | TREX 2019 | ceemit

By Rayna Higuchi ’20 We started off today with data analysis, compiling and graphing the data that we have generated with transects so far. Nothing particularly insightful has popped up yet, but we’ll be studying the […]

TREX Day 6 – Plants

January 18, 2019 | TREX 2019 | ceemit

By Rayna Higuchi ’20 Sierra Rosenzweig ’20, Stephen Duncan ’20, and I kicked off our day with an early morning call into the CEE mini-UROP. We spoke to the freshmen about our experience in TREX and […]

TREX – Day 4

January 17, 2019 | TREX 2019 | ceemit

By Rayna Higuchi ’20 Today was an exciting disappointment. We were originally supposed to head over to Leilani to see newly formed lava fields, but never got a call back on whether today was okay for […]

TREX 2019 Day 2: Solar Panels and Sensors

January 15, 2019 | TREX 2019 | ceemit

By Rayna Higuchi ’20 The morning dawned bright and not so early, beginning at ten with us splitting into two groups. Half went to our first outing at a small climate and air quality research station, […]

TREX Day 3 – Plant Life

January 15, 2019 | TREX 2019 | ceemit

By Rayna Higuchi ’20 Today was a pants kind of day. Our group started off adventuring into the woods behind the house to take something called a transect. Professor Dave Des Marais walked 50 feet straight […]

TREX 2019 Day 1: Setup and Exploration

January 14, 2019 | TREX 2019 | ceemit

By Rayna Higuchi ’20 Today was the first full day that the TREX group spent in Hawaii. The morning was used for setup, with different groups going to stores, setting up drones and sensors, and buying […]

TREX 2019 – Preparing for Hawaii

January 11, 2019 | TREX 2019 | ceemit

By Viban Gonzales ’20 I’m Viban Gonzales, a junior in course 1 taking 1.091: Traveling Research Environmental Experience, or TREX. Next week, we are going to the big island of Hawaii to do fieldwork and research […]

TREX Day 2- Exploring with the Plant Group

January 11, 2019 | TREX 2019 | ceemit

By Janice Shiu ’20 Today, the TREX group split into two groups, the atmosphere group and plant group. While the atmosphere group set up meteorological sensors at Kaʻū High & Pāhala Elementary School, the plant group […]