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Progress Update

The past few weeks, I have been crunching numbers and analyzing my data. The past couple days, I have finally proven my hypothesis to be correct of the two watersheds not to be significantly different. The comparison of the two watersheds had to eliminate some of the  sites in Water Canyon to keep a high … Continue reading Progress Update

First Draft Map

This week, I’m working on my poster for capstone which will showcase all my work this past year. Here is my main map for the poster. These are the randomly generated plot points which I sampled.

Poster Complete

I finally finished formatting my poster. It’s starting to look good. I have to make some final touch ups and finalize my text. Other than that, my project is coming along well. All I have to do is slap together my paper, revise it 72 times as well as my figures, and turn it in […]

Update 4/25/16

This week I spent time reorganizing my poster. I realized that there was far too much text to include in a poster and I re organized and reworded my text.  I also participated in a school function not related to the TP directly but was able to include it in a water symposium at an … Continue reading Update 4/25/16

CSU COAST 2016 Annual Meeting

Our consortium for the study of the coast and ocean here in the California State University System (aka CSU COAST) just held our annual meeting in Long Beach.  While this group’s focus is the entirety of our coastal and marine environment, much of this has a direct bearing on oil spills and how we go about… Read more »

Refugio Spill Public Lecture

A few weeks ago saw me up in Simi Valley speaking to folks from young to old about what began last May 19 at Refugio Beach.  I always enjoy giving one of our monthly installment of the CSU Channel Islands Library Lecture Series, an array of public lectures held across Ventura County open to all comers.  This presentation had… Read more »

LA Water Keeper Event was Awesome!

  Saturday I was able to have a booth at the LA Water Keeper event at Paradise Cove, Malibu The Annual Stand Up for Clean Water event is awesome as professional athletes along with weekend racers come out and paddle to raise awareness for clean water…
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Preliminary Results

GOOD NEWS!  We are finally done in the greenhouse.  My young Bishop pines have been growing for just under two months now and I can see some patterns.  I haven’t finished running my statistics yet but I noticed that both the mainland and Santa Rosa Island population grow much better with ash cover.  This was to … Continue reading Preliminary Results