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Mountains Floating on a Sea of Stone
As the summer winds to a close, the Gravity Group's software education culminates in a Model of Gravitational Anomalies
Blakely Aaronson
Aug 7, 20202 min read
Goals In Sight
Hey everyone, here’s just a quick update on our progress as we begin week 4. Our goal of learning some basic QGIS is coming along nicely....
Anirudh Patel
Aug 3, 20202 min read
Landslide Site Surveys, But Make It Remote
We are now officially past the learning stage and into the research assignment stage! As Lea mentioned in her last post, we have spent...
Andrew Marden
Aug 1, 20202 min read
MATLAB, Mapping, & Me
Hello! I can’t believe we’re already on Week 3 of our projects – it really feels like it’s been no time at all. When I wrote my last...
Renée Ghosh
Jul 28, 20202 min read
Laying the Foundation
Hey everyone! Week 3 now, time is flying by. I can’t help but think what I would have been doing if we were able to travel to Costa Rica....
Lea Vecchiarelli
Jul 28, 20202 min read
Breaking Trail! (virtually, of course)
Happy Monday! It is now week 3 of our summer projects and we are certainly making some headway with QGIS. Blakley and I have another good...
Anirudh Patel
Jul 27, 20202 min read
From Small Scale to a Global Model
Lea and I have been progressing on our landslide research, where most recently we have focused on learning QGIS, the software we will be...
Andrew Marden
Jul 24, 20202 min read
Connecting the Dots
Oscar teaches us interpolation, a technique that lets us use data collected at different points to make guesses about the spaces between.
Blakely Aaronson
Jul 24, 20202 min read
My Sediments on Week Two
Hello! Short update this time: it’s week two, and our projects are definitely moving along! My week is usually structured by video calls...
Renée Ghosh
Jul 21, 20201 min read
Slippin' and Slidin'
Hi everyone! Update for the landslide group, since beginning our virtual research in the first week in July we decided to organize the...
Lea Vecchiarelli
Jul 21, 20202 min read
Another Map… With Many More to Come
Hello and welcome to week 2 of GRAVITY defying research (is this even a real blog or just a place for me to showcase my amazing puns?)....
Anirudh Patel
Jul 20, 20202 min read
Hitting the Ground Running
Hello! My name is Renée, and I’m so excited to be a part of the GREAT team. I’ll be in my junior year at Rutgers this fall semester,...
Renée Ghosh
Jul 20, 20202 min read
University Connections
Hi! Andrew Marden here coming from North Jersey to give a little background about myself and what I'll be doing with the project! I am...
Andrew Marden
Jul 17, 20202 min read
Software & Hard Rocks
Oscar, Anirudh and I meet to learn learn what a "gravitational anomaly" is, as well as how to use computers to map them.
Blakely Aaronson
Jul 16, 20202 min read
As GREAT As It Can Be
Hey everyone, Ani- GREAT pun! My name is Lea and I'll be a senior at Rutgers this fall! In my free time this summer I have been biking,...
Lea Vecchiarelli
Jul 14, 20202 min read
A Very GREAT Quarantine
First off, I’d like to say that the GREAT puns are back and better than ever. And secondly, welcome to the first blog post from the 2020...
Anirudh Patel
Jul 13, 20202 min read
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