Hey everybody!
I hope you all are having a
wonderful semester and enjoying the refreshing autumn weather. October break
will soon be upon us!
I’ve had a very exciting first few
weeks back at Oberlin. A large portion of the semester consisted of prepping for
GSA back in September. That involved finalizing the leaching data that Adrian
and I collected last semester and any new data collected over the summer by
Marcus and Monica. Monica, Marcus, Adrian and I also spent time putting
together a poster worthy of a presentation at GSA. And before I knew it, I was
on a plane to Denver, Colorado to present at the conference!
It was a fantastic experience
overall. I had the opportunity to see Oberlin alums, meet professionals from
all different fields of geology, and even explore the city of Denver a bit with
my fellow geo-nerds. The presentation of the poster with Adrian and Monica went
smoothly and we spent the rest of our time at GSA going to geology talks and
meetings. It was a very informative trip and even gave me a few new ideas about
which fields of geology I may wish to pursue in the future.
And now on to…LEACHING! Our lab
group has split up into smaller teams and everybody is embarking on the
wonderful adventure that is leaching in the Carnegie geochem lab. Each lab
member is getting to learn how to do the entire process and many samples are
being leached every week. Monica, Gabe, and I are working on the CH-0XX samples
(samples from the China trip a year or two ago).
As of right now, that is all that’s
been happening. I’ll upload another blog post later in the year and hopefully
have more to say. Monica and Gabe are both on my mini-team for the leaching
project, so feel free to check out any blog posts that they upload and keep
up-to-date on our progress!
Hope you all are enjoying the
amazing ~fall~ weather!
Bye-bye!
-Chloe
P.S. Check out Marcus’ post if you want a quick refresher on
the leaching process! J
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