I am a third year graduate student from Prof. Betsy Stone research group, University of Iowa. It was a tremendous opportunity for me to participate in IMPACTS (Investigation into Marine …
DNA in the Clouds
As a third year graduate student in a biochemistry lab, I don’t often get experiences like this. A giant wave-generating tank is novel to me and quite a bit different …
Approaching the Finish Line…
Although it was a ton of hard work, I have enjoyed being part of the CAICE (Center for Aerosol Impacts on Climate and the Environment) IMPACTS (Investigation into Marine Particle …
Collaboration and teamwork are a key to great discoveries
Dozens of instruments from many universities, this is what it takes to do real science! Nowadays, great discoveries are not possible within one laboratory working in isolation. Collaborations of research …
Anotha day, anotha dot
Hello from the UCSD Hydraulics lab! The current time is 00:15, and I’m still a good 2 hours from my pillow. My task between now and zzz’s? Figure out how …
CAICE Enriches and Challenges Intellectual Capacity
Growing up in a developing country, Rwanda, located in East Africa, who would have thought we could be part of this huge and positively worldwide contributing project? Thanks to CAICE, …
Another world record…?
I arrived here in San Diego on July 15, 2014 just in time to see everything working!!! This includes phytoplankton blooms occurring in multiple MART systems and of course the …
CAICE IMPACTS a UCSD Undergrad
After finishing my second year of undergrad at UCSD, I am thrilled to already be a part of the CAICE IMPACTS experiments. My interests revolve around understanding the surface chemistry …
How science gets done
A lack of sleep, lots of laughs, and a room full of loud pumps: how science gets done! What a whirlwind the past few weeks have been! It’s hard to …
CAICE IMPACTS 2014
I have the privilege of writing the very first blog for our major 2014 NSF Center for Aerosol Impacts on Climate and the Environment (CAICE) summer intensive named IMPACTS (Investigation into Marine …