Nine weeks passed. Time flies!!!!! At the end of this week I have completed all my laboratory work and analysis. It was a hard and busy week. So, now just trying to put together different pieces of the urchin story. Final results are really interesting. I'm working on paper as well as the presentation. Hope to finish both by the week end. I'm planning do my practice talk to my laboratory members on Monday.

I concur that despite knowing it would probably go very quickly, I am still surprised to be seeing the finish line.

Key has been pretty stable for the past week or so. There are a number of benthic ctenos that really don't score well into the key. This is probably because it was designed originally for cydippids, which have a pretty different morphology to these derived benthic forms. I am currently leaning towards not scoring them fully, as I do not feel that their comprehensive inclusion would aid the main goals of my project.

My presentation is complete, and I have good idea of what I wish to say, but I haven't yet put the two together. I will probably learn it over the weekend.

Finding the report difficult, as I'm sure is the case for many people, I don't feel that my project fits well into the normal report framework. I am getting there slowly.

I'm doing my best not to sound too final, but it does appear like all things, our time here is coming to an end.

As it is the week prior to our presentations and papers deadline, it feels like a mad rush to organize and complete the data analysis of Atolla research. On Monday I finally prepared my Atolla tentacle sample for the SEM using the chemical drying method with HMDS, so together with Osmium, Monday was a toxic chemical day and very exciting. Tuesday I was able to take my samples to MLML to take a look through the SEM and the results were fantastic! Thank goodness the HMDS protocol worked and I was able to get some pretty great photographs of Atolla tentacles. Wednesday I was living in the videolab looking for good video clips and collecting more observational data for the presentation. I will be going back to MLML to finish getting pictures of the tentacle in the SEM today as well. As I only have the bare bones of my presentation, I figure I will be spending most of Friday, aside from trying to decipher the SEM and histological slides, putting more substance into my presentation. Luckily I have the entire weekend to complete and practice my talk.
Good luck everyone and have a lovely weekend!

This week I spent some time exploring my data to see what kind of dispersal models these tubeworm populations fit. We are investigating isolation by distance and migration models to get an idea of how the larvae move around the vents along the east Pacific rise. I have spent a lot of time in Bob's office the past couple days and have gained a lot of insight as to the theory of these ideas. He is also teaching me how to run a Mantel test in Arlequin, to find the correlation between geographic distance and genetic divergence. I have gathered a lot of figures for the paper and presentation, and am slowly making progress on those as time dwindles. I am hoping to give a practice talk to my lab on Monday so I can incorporate feedback by practice time on Tuesday.

This week I largely finished the first draft of our paper. I also carried out some preliminary analyses comparing my results to Sergey's LCS results. The result of this is interesting, but not conclusive yet. That'll be paper #2, I suppose. I also did some initial work with clustering algorithms that yielded some promising results but, again, nothing worth writing up yet.

Currently, I'm working on applying my algorithms to real-time Dorado data. The results of this will determine whether we run my stuff on-shore during the fall CANON experiment.

Time has flown by, and this week has been spent pulling together science data and information into some sort of cohesive story. Last friday I got to tour the Hog Island Oyster Company, where I ate an oyster and learnt facinating information about what makes an oyster farm successful. The next few days will be more pulling together of data and informations and making my story make sense.

Data analysis is pretty much done, just need to pull it all together as a nice neat package and I'm set. PERMANOVA took a while to get my head round but we got there in the end. The findings are a bit different than what we were looking in to but generally not very surprising as they follow an age-old trend. Still very interesting stuff.

Should hopefully finish off my presentation and paper this weekend...

This week I worked on my presentation and final paper. Both are nearly complete, however I will be polishing them up next week. I also have been gathering everything that I have been working on this summer into one folder so that everything is organized for other people in my group. Tomorrow I will be visiting Liquid Robotics to discuss the integration. Although this meeting is coming a little late, it will be nice to see what ideas Liquid Robotics has in mind for design and integration. Needless to day, the time went by very very fast, and I am shocked that it is over. They should make the internship 30 weeks!

This week I have been working on both my presentation and report. I have results but trying to change the parameters of my training library to try and find 'the sweet spot' for classification. While it is proving to be somewhat challenging, it is very interesting to see how the addition or removal of an image class can significantly alter the classification values. I have been trying all sorts of combinations to see what works and what doesn't. The more I work on this the more I realise that there is no immediate exact science to autonomous classification!However, it also seems that there are new AVEDac doors opening from some of the results I have.

I hope to finish my presentation by the weekend for practicing early next week and also get my report finished early next week. Of course, this is entirely dependent on how much playing around with AVEDac I do in terms of picking out the best results to display!

I agree with Brendan, a 30 week internship would be awesome.

This week, I have worked for 7 days, finally got the experiment done and had the experimental data for analysis.
I have done the lab test on Wednesday,set up everything and prepared for the tank test.
Because I donot have tank training, the mentor Gene Massion was so busy during the weekday, so we decided to do the tank test on Sunday, we spent 5 hours to pack up and seal the McStar. And then collect the acoustic data.

Next week(the last week), try to finish the paper on Thursday, and prepare the presentation on Tuesday and Wednesday, leave the best results in MBARI and send the best wishes to everybody. Hope I can have a chance to come back MBARI for further work. Thanks to Confluence to track my work schedule, be happy to work on this every week.

I am working on my paper and finished most of my presentation.

this week I finish the paper and try not to die

I can't believe the internship is really almost over! Sorry for being late again. Last week I added a few finishing touches that the video lab asked for. I also spent a couple days testing the DSG in every major browser to be sure everything would work for everyone, in case it ever goes external. After much frustration with certain browsers (especially one by a certain large search engine company... *cough cough*), the DSG now works in every browser (I've heard of some problems in Safari, but I've been unable to replicate them). So now the DSG is officially finished for the summer.

 This week I will be finishing my presentation (including videos!) and paper. I will also be cleaning up the code I've written (aka removing any old/unnecessary code). I'm so excited to present and finally learn in-depth about everyone else's projects!