{"id":126,"date":"2014-06-24T15:42:17","date_gmt":"2014-06-24T19:42:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/carthe.org\/blog\/?p=126"},"modified":"2014-06-26T17:13:46","modified_gmt":"2014-06-26T21:13:46","slug":"intern-josh-entry-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/carthe.org\/blog\/intern-josh-entry-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Intern Jonathan Zikos – Entry 1"},"content":{"rendered":"

Intern Jonathan Zikos<\/em><\/strong> \u2013 Senior Environmental Chemistry major working under \u00a0Dr. Darek Bogucki at Texas A&M University \u2013 Corpus Christi\u2019s Harte Research Institute.<\/p>\n

Entry 1<\/em><\/p>\n

This summer, I will be analyzing and categorizing data from Dr. Bogucki\u2019s Optical Turbulence Sensor \u00a0(OTS) experiments with the focus on nearsurface particulate content, and comparing this with GLAD<\/a> CTD data acquired at approximately the same time and location. A CTD is a group of sensors put into the ocean to measure C<\/strong>onductivity, T<\/strong>emperature, and D<\/strong>epth among\u00a0 other things. The GLAD data I will be working with also has \"DCIM100GOPRO\"salinity, density, dissolved Oxygen, Nitrogen saturation, and fluorescence measurements. This helps me to know what\u2019s in the water moving around on a bio\/chemical level. Is it plankton? Is it detritus? Is it oil droplets?<\/p>\n

The OTS uses a laser to cast shadows on a sensor. This allows me to not only see the turbulence in the water, but the particles of stuff floating around in the water. I will be using a powerful mathematics program called MATLAB<\/a> to find out how large these particles are, and comparing them with the GLAD data to try and figure out what they are.<\/p>\n

Turbulence is very interesting. It\u2019s chaotic and complex, yet it\u2019s the same on almost any scale. Turbulence in the atmosphere of Jupiter looks the same as the turbulence in a cup of coffee and cream, or an ocean with oil in it. In this way turbulence is not unlike a fractal. You can look at the whole ocean, or you can zoom in and look at a cubic centimeter of it, and you still see turbulence governed by the same basic physics.<\/p>\n

I\u2019m very excited to be working on this and seeing where it all leads. Will I end up focusing more on the particulates, or the turbulence, or something else? Only time will tell.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Intern Jonathan Zikos \u2013 Senior Environmental Chemistry major working under \u00a0Dr. Darek Bogucki at Texas A&M University \u2013 Corpus Christi\u2019s Harte Research Institute. Entry 1 This summer, I will be Continue Reading \u2192<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":132,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[8],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/carthe.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/carthe.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/carthe.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/carthe.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/carthe.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=126"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/carthe.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":133,"href":"http:\/\/carthe.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126\/revisions\/133"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/carthe.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/132"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/carthe.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=126"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/carthe.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=126"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/carthe.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=126"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}