Day 2

Today we started off with with a brief staff meeting a 8:45am going over the calendar for the internship. We got dates for milestones that we need to have done before our big presentation on the last day. After the staff meeting we all went to our lab rooms and met with our advisors to go our our projects and objectives of the day. In my lab we discussed what our project is going to be. We are comparing sieving methods both wet and dry. We are also using image analysis  (manual and automated) to find the grain size distribution in soil, rocks, sand, etc. After we went over the project we were given 3 articles to read on grain size distribution (GSD) and different methods used by past authors in finding the GSD. 2 of the articles were on the automative methods, the other article was the various of wet and dry sieving methods. I was given the task to find 3 more articles about the GSD and methods to find it. Today I also started working on finding parts to build a wet sieving set-up online. We needed to find what specific pumps, hoses and connecters we needed to make this set up. We ended finding what size sieves we are going to need but now we to find out what size pumps and their flow rates so it doesn't overflow.