{"id":333,"date":"2013-07-22T11:55:37","date_gmt":"2013-07-22T15:55:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/envs\/?p=333"},"modified":"2013-07-22T11:55:37","modified_gmt":"2013-07-22T15:55:37","slug":"summer-research-roundup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/envs\/2013\/07\/22\/summer-research-roundup\/","title":{"rendered":"Summer Research Roundup"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/envs\/files\/2013\/07\/Science-cookout.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-334\" src=\"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/envs\/files\/2013\/07\/Science-cookout.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"700\" height=\"394\" srcset=\"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/envs\/files\/2013\/07\/Science-cookout.jpg 700w, http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/envs\/files\/2013\/07\/Science-cookout-300x168.jpg 300w, http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/envs\/files\/2013\/07\/Science-cookout-600x337.jpg 600w, http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/envs\/files\/2013\/07\/Science-cookout-500x281.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/a>The official summer research program ended last week with a big barbecue (Profs Bill Church and Christoph Geiss, head-barbecuists) and summer research presentations. ENVS was very well represented by Dan and Justin, who looked a bit nervous before their talk,<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/envs\/files\/2013\/07\/Dan-and-Justin-pretending-not-to-be-nervous.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-335\" src=\"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/envs\/files\/2013\/07\/Dan-and-Justin-pretending-not-to-be-nervous.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"700\" height=\"394\" srcset=\"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/envs\/files\/2013\/07\/Dan-and-Justin-pretending-not-to-be-nervous.jpg 700w, http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/envs\/files\/2013\/07\/Dan-and-Justin-pretending-not-to-be-nervous-300x168.jpg 300w, http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/envs\/files\/2013\/07\/Dan-and-Justin-pretending-not-to-be-nervous-600x337.jpg 600w, http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/envs\/files\/2013\/07\/Dan-and-Justin-pretending-not-to-be-nervous-500x281.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/a>but did a very fine job telling us about their ongoing research in the White Mountains of New Hampshire.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/envs\/files\/2013\/07\/Dan-and-Justin-giving-their-presentation.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-336\" src=\"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/envs\/files\/2013\/07\/Dan-and-Justin-giving-their-presentation.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"700\" height=\"394\" srcset=\"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/envs\/files\/2013\/07\/Dan-and-Justin-giving-their-presentation.jpg 700w, http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/envs\/files\/2013\/07\/Dan-and-Justin-giving-their-presentation-300x168.jpg 300w, http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/envs\/files\/2013\/07\/Dan-and-Justin-giving-their-presentation-600x337.jpg 600w, http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/envs\/files\/2013\/07\/Dan-and-Justin-giving-their-presentation-500x281.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/a>Now that their standard solutions have finally arrived Justin is eager to get started on his handful of samples.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/envs\/files\/2013\/07\/Justin-showing-off-his-samples2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-339\" src=\"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/envs\/files\/2013\/07\/Justin-showing-off-his-samples2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"700\" height=\"394\" \/><\/a>Rose and Sarah have been working as interior designers, furnishing Cameron Douglass&#8217; lab, and have been kept busy making artificial weeds.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/envs\/files\/2013\/07\/Rose-in-lab1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-341\" src=\"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/envs\/files\/2013\/07\/Rose-in-lab1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"700\" height=\"394\" \/><\/a>For all of you who don&#8217;t have enough naturally occurring weeds in your back yard: all you need is a few sticks, tin snips, blotting paper, and two students who carefully cut out each leaf by hand. My request for naturalistic serrated edges was nixed. Cameron&#8217;s weeds have a total of six square blotting paper leaves.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/envs\/files\/2013\/07\/Sarah-and-Rose-cutting-leaves.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-342\" src=\"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/envs\/files\/2013\/07\/Sarah-and-Rose-cutting-leaves.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"700\" height=\"394\" srcset=\"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/envs\/files\/2013\/07\/Sarah-and-Rose-cutting-leaves.jpg 700w, http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/envs\/files\/2013\/07\/Sarah-and-Rose-cutting-leaves-300x168.jpg 300w, http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/envs\/files\/2013\/07\/Sarah-and-Rose-cutting-leaves-600x337.jpg 600w, http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/envs\/files\/2013\/07\/Sarah-and-Rose-cutting-leaves-500x281.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/a>No fake weeds in Christoph Geiss&#8217; lab. Counting pollen is exhausting, as one can see:<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/envs\/files\/2013\/07\/Maddie-hiding.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-343\" src=\"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/envs\/files\/2013\/07\/Maddie-hiding.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"700\" height=\"394\" srcset=\"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/envs\/files\/2013\/07\/Maddie-hiding.jpg 700w, http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/envs\/files\/2013\/07\/Maddie-hiding-300x168.jpg 300w, http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/envs\/files\/2013\/07\/Maddie-hiding-600x337.jpg 600w, http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/envs\/files\/2013\/07\/Maddie-hiding-500x281.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/a>and Jami only has twenty five thousand measurements to go. Almost done, I&#8217;d say.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/envs\/files\/2013\/07\/Jami-almost-done-only-100-more-samples-to-go.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-344\" src=\"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/envs\/files\/2013\/07\/Jami-almost-done-only-100-more-samples-to-go.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"700\" height=\"394\" srcset=\"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/envs\/files\/2013\/07\/Jami-almost-done-only-100-more-samples-to-go.jpg 700w, http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/envs\/files\/2013\/07\/Jami-almost-done-only-100-more-samples-to-go-300x168.jpg 300w, http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/envs\/files\/2013\/07\/Jami-almost-done-only-100-more-samples-to-go-600x337.jpg 600w, http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/envs\/files\/2013\/07\/Jami-almost-done-only-100-more-samples-to-go-500x281.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/a>At the same time, guest-researcher Kelsey is busy re-learning ArcGIS in the lab. A dozen more maps and she&#8217;ll be done as well. Kelsey, just a heads-up: we&#8217;ll need the lab in September to teach Geology again, so quit slacking!<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/envs\/files\/2013\/07\/Kelsey.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-345\" src=\"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/envs\/files\/2013\/07\/Kelsey.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"700\" height=\"394\" srcset=\"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/envs\/files\/2013\/07\/Kelsey.jpg 700w, http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/envs\/files\/2013\/07\/Kelsey-300x168.jpg 300w, http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/envs\/files\/2013\/07\/Kelsey-600x337.jpg 600w, http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/envs\/files\/2013\/07\/Kelsey-500x281.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; The official summer research program ended last week with a big barbecue (Profs Bill Church and Christoph Geiss, head-barbecuists) and summer research presentations. ENVS was very well represented by Dan and Justin, who looked a bit nervous before their &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/envs\/2013\/07\/22\/summer-research-roundup\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":573,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[26,31,42],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/envs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/333"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/envs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/envs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/envs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/573"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/envs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=333"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/envs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/333\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":349,"href":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/envs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/333\/revisions\/349"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/envs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=333"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/envs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=333"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/envs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=333"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}