DONE! ...Well, I'm leaving Colorado at least.

Today was an excellent last day of my internship. We went up into Green Lakes Valley (12,000ft) to do the final seismic surveys of the season. Beautiful weather, nice topography, and good company made it a decidedly great final day.

This past week seemed packed! I spent the entire weekend finishing up my data analysis and figures so I can have a good poster that will hopefully stand out of the 10,000 other posters at AGU in December. Abstract is on draft 4 or so, but I think it's pretty well set. Poster is done-ish (it'll need some touching up before I finally print it). I also have quite a few words for a potential paper I'll write on my project.

Tuesday was the Boulder Creek Critical Zone Observatory meeting at CU's Mountain Research Station where I gave a presentation on my research and results. Kevin gave a little active seismology and study area spiel for the audience, which was largely soil scientists, geomorphologists, and biologists, so they could understand the background a bit better, and then I took over, reducing my entire summer into about seven minutes. It went well and gosh, am I glad it's over.

I'd show you some results, but then what reason would you have to come see my poster in December? …...Fine, I'll show a little, but just a taste. My project essentially compared a few different techniques for finding S-wave velocity profiles to each other and to P-wave velocity profiles. We used both Vp and Vs to find out information about the quality of the subsurface materials as well as some water stuff (I'm being ambiguous on purpose).

1/6th of my money figure, which shows comparability of S-velocity structure obtained from S-wave and surface wave data.  S-refraction tended to give up to 40% faster Vs than surface wave analysis across the board.

I fly right back to school in Michigan (Man, do I miss the U.P.) today (Friday) and start working my other job on Saturday at 1PM. Two weeks of Orientation Team Leadering and then it's back to the grind of school, which I am for once looking forward to. It seems to hold more purpose after working on a project of my own all summer.

Have a good one all!

-Austin