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Hi Period 2 IB-ers! Here are some answers for you.I watched Pulp Fiction yesterday during my lazy-get-used-to-the-altitude day. I also downloaded a few different TV shows off Netflix before I left home. Black Mirror has been awesome but a little strange so far (I'm on Season 3) and I haven't yet started Orange is the New Black. Since internet access only occurs when satellites are up (there are times posted on TV monitors to show you when to sign on), and even then it's pretty limited, we don't really get to stream movies or download more. Plus, that would really eat up the bandwidth which wouldn't be fair to other people in the station. But there is a lounge here with lots and lots of DVDs and VHSs to borrow.
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Tuesday Nicole and I planned to go down to Golden for a day at the NEIC, so I left Monday night to meet my good friend Laura for an evening climb at Earth Treks, her local gym down there. It was incredible. This gym is really new, with an obviously insane budget for holds, and the sport climbing walls are both steep and long - perfect for an evening of girls crushing on some plastic. Tuesday at the NEIC was pretty mellow. Harley and I made plans for what data was priority to download next, and things began to make headway there. We went to lunch at the Sherpa House again - third time is not the charm. I think we need to try something new... However, Wes Thelen of the Hawaii Volcano Observatory joined us. A former student of University of Washington, it was really nice to talk to someone who spent some time in the northwest, knew my advisor Jackie, and knew the research that had made me interested in pursuing seismology in the first place (Kate Allstadt's research with icequakes on Rainier and Jackie's work with signals from rock-ice avalanches on Iliamna). Wes and I joked about how much these women enjoy and excel at studying these less than classical earthquake signals that I have a growing interest in - it's like the "one man's trash is another man's treasure" except with seismology... and that trash sounds like a harsh way to describe these events... because they truly are intriguing. I'm excited to delve more into icequakes with my own research this summer. The highlight of Tuesday though was Nicole and my meeting with Dan McNamara. He told us about all he'd been doing with OK earthquakes, doing multiple event relocation, as well as looking at b-values and swarm characterization with this program in Matlab called MapSeis. What he was doing revived my excitement for this research. I suddenly started thinking of all the things I could do with my data - how I could do a lot of the same things he did to understand swarms myself.
I still have not been able to begin processing my data. It's not that I'm worried about time, I still have almost 10 weeks left and will likely be continuing work into the fall, but with an abstract looming, due in less than a month (a draft by July 30th for me because Rick will be gone the beginning of August), and with other interns being so far along with understanding their research, it's hard not to get incredibly discouraged and ultimately feel truly incompetent. I know I'm much earlier into my internship than the others, that we all have different backgrounds coming into this, and well, I would love to hear from others that this is a shared feeling, but it has been pretty difficult not knowing even the basics of coding, the upper division math that is the basis of my project's processing, and really how to do most things on my own. Nicole has been extremely helpful with learning code as well as the steps to using the processing code, and I do feel like I've learned a lot. But sitting around waiting has this nack of making you think a lot, and of course we usually go to thinking a lot about what we don't know, sinking into the struggle of collaborative scientific research. Because ultimately I've downloaded all my data, I am just waiting for it to be uploaded in the format/location we use for processing, and also for the processing code to be fixed. The general feeling is a bit of helplessness mixed with a lot of incompetence.
The dataset that I will be working with this summer includes seismic recordings from various networks/stations throughout Antarctica. We are in the process of downloading data from several networks, each with it's own functioning time period: POLENET YT (2007 to present), Erebus ER (2002 to present), Southberg XV (2003 - 2006), AGAP ZM (2007 to 2012), as well as a few other stations that will give us data from time periods before those above. Each of these networks has many stations within them, and those then have many channels. As you can tell, there is just a whole heck of a lot of data! And as we began processing it, we realized that some of it was just too large, taking too long, and ultimately wasn't necessary for our studies. So within some networks we would only use data stations, not conditions stations (temperature, pressure, etc). We would also only select the highest sampling rate for each station, because that would give us the most complete dataset. What has been the greatest hurdle is making sure we are getting all the data from POLENET. Some of it is restricted and it's hard to tell if you've actually got all the data or are missing some. Therefore a lot of this data is available to the public, however some is not. I doubt we are the first people to look at most of this data, but perhaps some more recent POLENET information is less analyzed. The data is all raw as far as I'm aware. We wil be cross correlating events with an already made code by the NEIC/USGS, but I'm sure I will have to do some manual picking for alignment purposes.
We have also been given the okay to start downloading our data! So after I made my map for us and we bought a new 2TB external drive for all of data, we began the slow process of downloading it all. Station by station. Year by year. It's going to be slow. That's okay. We've got pandora open, a webinar to watch, and plenty to do. Our hopes are to finish the downloading by Friday, when we return to the NEIC, so that we can give it Harley to put it into a format that we can use in our codes. It's all very exciting to finally be producing things, like this silly little map and files of data for future processing. We will need to create a script to run the downloading even after we leave the lab today... We'll see how it goes!
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