Hello, again! This month has really been like a roller coaster for me with my research. When I last updated this blog in June, I was on a research high. I was getting fantastic results that were reproducible. My nanoparticles were responding to mercury. Then July happened. For more than a week I struggled to…
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Jul
31
A July Roller Coaster
Jul
31
The Highland War
Well, even with summer jobs, I’ve gotten quite a bit of research completed since my last update… After I dug a little deeper into my potential topics, I realized that Blathwayt was definitely not the way to go. Though he held the various political positions I described in the previous post, he served in these…
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Jul
30
More Ceramics, Not Enough Clay
So next week is the last week of summer research! I surprise myself with how sad I am about it. There’s still so much to do! But I’ve been working hard, nonetheless. For one thing, I met with a geologist about collecting clays for my study. This involved digging down into various parts of the…
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Jul
29
Memory, Messy Messy Memory
The first month and a half of research has been quite an eye opening experience. The first road block that I encountered was my own bias. To some extent I grew up with an American bias I never knew I had. It became clear to me when having lunch with a friend as she said…
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Jul
29
1,300 Miles Through the Valley and Ridge
Last Friday, I returned from a week-long field excursion that took me over the river (10 of them) and through the hills of western Virginia and West Virginia. I had two goals for the week: 1) to run reconnaissance on a long list of streams that may have good bedrock exposure and 2) to collect data from…
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