ORIENTATION AND SAMPLE SCHEDULE

Week 1: Introductions, orientation, administrative tasks; introductory library science workshop; presentation of research projects by CEA-CREST faculty; grounding workshops 1 and 2; organization of working space and conditions; welcome reception. 

Week 2: Grounding workshops; organization of teams; selection of team roles; kick-off meeting with project PIs; gathering of preliminary data, information, and literature on each sub-project; field immersion experience at UC Merced. 

Weeks 3-10: Laboratory and field research. 

Week 10: Final projects due; final project presentations; farewell reception.

In addition to these specific activities, the students will participate in/submit the following weekly activities/items: Research (laboratory and field); group meeting with project PI; progress report to project PI and site manager; end-of-week meeting with site manager.  Each year the students will write up and present orally a report on the particular aspect for which they were responsible (logging, sensor deployment, working with modelers to input the flow), as well as an overview of the group findings and their interpretation.