Research Log

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 of power point 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



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