July 7

Yesterday started with a walk across campus to the rock climbing facility called Red Barn.  At the Red Barn, interns and intern leaders engaged in a series of team bonding and building activities.  It was really fun to work with my fellow interns in order to solve problems and to accomplish the tasks that were set before us.  While we were not necessarily successful with each task presented to us, we all learned a lot about skills needed to problem solve and we got to know each other a bit better.  In the afternoon I met with Dr. Vodacek and we spent the remainder of the day downloading ENVI, which is a software that allows us to view and analyze remotely sensed data.  After a few frustrating technical issues, we finally fully installed the software; I am really excited to learn how to use it and to hopefully become emerged in data analysis starting within the next few days!