Detailed Research Log 7/2/2010 - 8/10/2010

2 July 2010, Friday
Orientation day - met with Dr. Yazdani and got a brief description of the different projects
                           introduced to the other participants and professors
                           overview of the facilities
                           REU purpose and outcome described
6 July 2010, Tuesday
Met with Dr. Sattler at 10:30am in Rm 414 to discuss what we wanted to model in the Hotspot 2.07.1 program
given and went over two handouts on air pollution

7 July 2010, Wednesday
Met with Dr. Sattler at 9am went over handout of power point on air pollution meteorology and a handout of the Gaussian Dispersion model
Read chpt. 5 in the Practical Guide to Atmospheric Dispersion Modeling by D. Bruce Turner, CCM and Richard H. Schulze, P.E., QEP

8 July 2010, Thursday
Met with Dr.Sattler at 10:30am
brought laptops after lunch in order to start working in the Hotspot program
Met graduate student assistant, Arpita Gandhi, who introduced us to the Hotspot program

9 July 2010, Friday
Met with Dr. Sattler 9am to 2pm
went over power point of "plume rise" and "methods of determining dispersion parameters sigma y and sigma z"

12 July 2010, Monday
Met with Dr. Sattler 9am to 2pm
went over power point on "air pollution meteorology - winds"

13 July 2010, Tuesday
Met with Dr. Sattler 9am to 2pm
lectured on air pollution

14 July 2010, Wednesday
Met with Dr. Sattler 9am to 2pm
lecture covered inversion layers, first order chemical rxns, settling, wet and dry deposition, averaging time changes

15 July 2010, Thursday
Met with Sattler 8:30am - 12pm, given articles to read in order to determine parameters
Ethics workshop 1:30pm - 4:00pm

16 July 2010, Friday
Met with Sattler 1pm - 3pm, lecture

19 July 2010, Monday
Hotspot modeling 9am - 2pm
researched TEDE levels
explosion scenarios

20 July 2010, Tuesday
Hotspot modeling 9am - 2pm
explosion scenarios

21 July 2010, Wednesday
Hotspot modeling 9am - 2pm
explosion scenarios

22 July 2010, Thursday
Took a tour of the Holcim Cement Plant 8:30am - 3:00pm

23 July 2010, Friday
Hotspot modeling 9am - 2pm
evaluating inputs for explosion

26 July 2010, Monday
Hotspot modeling 9am - 2pm
fire scenarios

27 July 2010, Tuesday
Hotspot modeling 9am - 2pm
fire scenarios

28 July 2010, Wednesday
9am - 11:25am work with Hotspot
REU Assessment 12pm -1pm

29 July 2010, Thursday
Research Training workshop 9am - 3pm, Rady Room

30 July 2010, Friday
9am - 3pm, worked on Hotspot models
11am, met with Dr. Sattler to discuss progress of the project
Run through of the presentation

2 August 2010, Monday
9am - 2pm, finalizing parameters and organized the comparative tables of data, discussed final presentation

3 August 2010, Tuesday
9am - 2pm, worked from home on slides for presentation

4 August 2010, Wednesday
9am - 11am, worked on combining slides for final presentation
11am - 1pm, watched "Garbage: The Movie" Rm 100 in Nedderman
1:30pm - 3pm, continued working on final presentation
4pm, worked on poster

5 August 2010, Thursday
9am - 3pm, cleaned up the final presentation
worked on poster and reflection paper

6 August 2010, Friday
9am - 12pm, Designed web page for the REU program
1pm, cleaned up final presentation
2pm, met with Dr. Sattler, ran through the presentation and received feed back from Dr. Sattler

7 August 2010, Saturday
finished and submitted poster to Dr. Yazdani
worked on reflection paper

9 August 2010, Monday
finalize presentation for 8/10
finish working on the deliverables for the REU program

10 August 2010, Tuesday
Summer End workshop 9am - 3pm