Augustus UR - "Why do we Fall? So we can Learn to Pick Ourselves Back Up."

This blogpost is going to be a different one entirely from some of my other classmates. In my previous post I detailed this project that I was going to be working on this semester, well due to the rigorous testing that the study involved it wouldn't be possible to accomplish it in the constraints of the semester and more importantly it was WAY above any type of testing I've done basically I'm used to using acids that might burn if you touch them not the ones that will melt your skin if you accidentally touch them. Before I get started I want to thank Dr. Brown for even including me in on this research, most people wouldn't even think to give some one with not much experience a chance to learn like that. Unfortunately for me there goes my chance to work with someone I could call Doc Brown *insert groans for horrible Back to the Future joke*. The other outcome of this situation is it a great moment to take away a life lesson, when one door closes another door opens, you just have to keep looking and not allow yourself to dwell on the the felling of failure or letting someone down. Science and failure go hand in hand, every scientist fails from time to time the difference is if you can pick yourself back up and try again.

So now without further adieu my new project will be monitoring sea level rise due to climate change using a HOBO Data Logger graciously supplied by Dr. Woodall. What I will be attempting to study is the change in water level vs historical data and comparing that to the data being collected by researchers down at Florida Tech in Melbourne to see the effects of Climate Change on our sea level and how quickly it is increasing. There will be some difficulties with this project first getting to a spot where this can be deployed and getting permission to deploy it in said location, so my data collection might be slow and I might be left with just a proposal this semester but this project is something I'm going to stick with for a long time. It is an important topic to me and I'm extremely excited to start working on this.

The U20L Data Logger being used for this Research