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Today marks the first day of my work here and boy do I have a lot to learn. As a Geosciences major, the only knowledge I have of the Solar System and the cosmos is from my own teaching. More »
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I continued my work as an REU student today playing catch-up on my knowledge (or the lack thereof) of astronomy and asteroids. Dr. More »
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After bidding Sarah farewell, Erika, Dr. Leake, and I shuffled into my mentor's Ford Taurus/jellybean-mobile. More »
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Meeting took place in two forms today. One was an introduction to new people and the other was a time when mentors presented research to the students. More »
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After breakfast today everyone met in the physics building where our mentors gave talks mainly on the subjects our their students work. I heard (and actually partially understood) talks about variable stars, active galaxies, layers of plasma above the Earth, and black holes. More »
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Welcome to the website where I hope to reveal the ins and outs of my summer here at Valdosta State University in Valdosta, GA. Today was a typical day here for me. More »
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This day started out easily like many others. I read a couple journal articles this morning looking for more information to store in my head about asteroids and how to find water of hydration on them. More »
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Not to be too literal about things but I moved today. Converse Hall is my home away from home for the summer here at VSU. More »
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Today I asked Dr. Leake (my mentor here) to give me a run through on some critical astronomy concepts. More »
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Work was a great thing today. Another student working on a parallel project to mine, Jason Looper, was around today completing some tasks with me today. More »
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IRAF. Image Reduction and Analysis Facility. More »
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Today was a particularly uneventful (but good) day. I gazed through lists of asteroids and their various features today so that we could determine which ones fall into our criteria that need the most data. More »
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Today was the big day for me to accompany Dr. Hyatt to Lake Balboa to collect sediment samples. More »
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I can just hear Old Blue Eyes singing that chart now. And, if he'd ever seen what I saw tonight, I'm sure he'd have truly meant it. More »
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Isn't that how the saying goes or something? Well, at any rate today was a very fulfilling day. More »
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I undoubtedly had a fine day today. It started [rather] early in the morning at about 8am. More »
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As the Sun reaches it's highest point in the northern hemisphere's sky, today is a day just like many others. I spent the day gathering information on possible C-type asteroids that we can observe at Kitt Peak. More »
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Today, like yesterday, felt like a rather productive day. Although the Lowell Observatory server was down and prevented me from getting some tracking information on our target asteroids, I got a good deal accomplished. More »
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After a day of frusteration with the Lowell Observatories asteroid ephemeris generation site, everything else went pretty well. I installed a great astronomy program called Redshift 2 on the PC up in the dome. More »
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After my usual morning routine of showering, breakfast, and a little web surfing and email, I went into work. Jason was [unexpectedly] there when I arrived. More »
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Actually, it was definately day time when this doosey of a storm ran over this area. Work today was pretty nominal and consisted of much manual reading for some of our equipment. More »
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I woke up at 11am CST (College Standard Time) this morning and felt nothing but refreshed. I didn't, however, truly start today until somewhere around 1pm. More »
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11am this morning was time for the group of asteroid lubbers to get together and finalize the list of potato-shaped planetary bodies we'll observe at Kitt Peak later this week. We narrowed the field down to about 28 minor planets all as high above the horizon as possible and all in a row along the night sky. More »
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Today was a nominal day in which I choose a few more asteroids for the list, wrote a few letters that needed to be sent (mainly for money) and helped Dr. Leake try to focus the spectroscopes. More »
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Work today led me back to some articles Dr. Leake sent me a while back. More »
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The feeling I got today when basically denied a simple function of modern life. As I get ready for the observing run trip out to Kitt Peak, AZ I decided to run errands and prepare myself today. More »
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