Round two starts today!

Back to work on stream monitoring with the Research Experience for Teachers program at UNT. Working with a new team and new goals this summer. Check out our new blog as it develops!

UNT RET Stream Monitoring and Control

Week 6 Day 5

Well, today was the last day of our six week journey into the unknown. All of the groups presented their final results today and it was a lot of fun to see everyone's success. I'm already looking forward to next year! 

Here is the order we presented in.

Here are the group posters.

Here is my certificate for completing the course. (Just change the name and you know what the rest look like.)

Here is a link to our final paper.

Here is our final presentation. It is unedited, so, you know... If you hang in there you will also get to see the robotics presentation.

(coming soon...)

Week 6 Day 4

We are in the home stretch! All of the research is done. Our group poster is finished (great work Joe!). Our lab space is cleaned up and ready to be vacated. We have taken our group pictures and done our exit interviews. And Lori, Joe and I have all been working like demons to get the final paper completed. It is not 100% finished at this point but it is close. Before we submit we will export to word, clean up the formatting and then convert it to a pdf. If you want to see a final draft, though it can be accessed using the link below. So can our raw data.

Final Draft of Research Paper

Data From Dr. Hoeinghaus

Data Used in Paper

	pH	DO	Temperature
Correlation	0.615358	0.807081	0.755728
% Error	4.28714	16.4226	3.93644

Week 6 Day 3

Sorry ladies and gentleman, the posts are going to probably be a touch boring today and tomorrow. We are in the home stretch at this point and are pretty much just wrapping up the paper, posters, etc... Joe and I spent the whole day on the research paper and the TechFest stuff. Lori split her day between the paper and cleaning up the lab with our table top model and aquarium. Stay tuned, though! The paper will likely be posted tomorrow!

The WSN explained...

Our grad student, Yixing Gu, sat us down today and gave us a summary report of exactly how the wireless sensor network is organized and what programs he wrote to control it.

Midterm Presentation

This can be found in Week 3 Day 5 but I have been told there was a problem viewing it. I believe that has been fixed, but I am posting the video again just to be sure. Our final presentation is two days from now!

Week 6 Day 2

Sorry for the late post. Not a whole lot to report today. We went out to the field and retrieved the sensor cluster and the data. We should receive the data from the sonde soon. Once we have that we will begin crunching numbers and seeing how successful our sensor cluster really is.

In the afternoon we got a tour of EESAT with Dr. Thompson to show us the facility and the space that would be available to us during TechFest. We also discovered that we were mistaken on what we were supposed to produce for TechFest so what I did won't work. On the plus side, it is a good intro project for my APES kids. On the minus side, I need to make a new activity first thing in the morning.

Speaking of TechFest... Here is one of the cool projects the kids can play with.