Paintball Poster

[Yahaira Petrov]

Thismission is initiated by speaking to a spiky haired purple monster on the Fear Tech campus after unlocking the Paintball Gun. He'll ask the character to find and, using the Paintball Gun, deface 20 Fear Tech posters hung around the Fear Tech Campus.

Earlier this month, Roberto, Nick and Ana represented the Bahnson Group at the IVB/MHI symposium. Roberto was able to present his current findings in an oral presentation, while Nick and Ana presented their research in poster format.

Morgan started in the lab this past Monday, and we are very excited to have her over the summer. Her summer research experience will focus on characterizing the Nrf2 pathway in the vasculature of Nrf2 KO rats.

The brightly colored WWII poster is an icon of another time: the tenacious, can-do American gal pushing up her sleeves and doing her part to save the world from Fascism. Take that, Adolph! But, the history of Rosie the Riveter is a living history as well, and some of it is being liv... Read More >>

Northern Express' Kid Camp Special Jan. 15, 2022

Michigan boasts hundreds of summer camps for kids and teens, from the traditional Kumbaya-around-the-campfire to high-tech STEM camps, with activities like backcountry backpacking, trapeze arts, paintball, and just about everything in between. To help prospective campers (and their parent... Read More >>

Vive la French Place Jan. 8, 2022

Boyne City is a restaurant town, and breaking into an established market might seem daunting, but after eight short months, Lake Street Pub already has a feeling of permanence. Opening in late May 2018, LSP began operations with everything in place: contemporary ambiance, professional wai... Read More >>

Freshwater Gallery Jan. 12, 2019

The K-State Student Union graphics office and Union Program Council were recently recognized for outstanding work at the Association of College Unions International Region 11 Conference in Stillwater, Okla., on Nov. 3.

Jeremy Himmelberg, Union student designer and senior in fine arts, won second and third place in the three or more color poster student division for his SVET and Dr. Seahorse events designs. Steven Martinez, Union lead designer, won second place in the promotional campaign professional division for his 54th Union Governing Board/Union Program Council banquet program and invitation design.

Accepting the award were Canfield and current films committee co-chair Elizabeth Davidson, junior in art education. Others attending the conference included Beth Bailey, Union assistant director and Union Program Council program manager; Caelee Gibbs, Union Program Council graduate adviser; Audrey Taggart-Kagdis, Union assistant director, marketing, public relations and development; and Jacob Ternes, Union Program Council graduate adviser.

To learn more about Association of College Unions International Region 11, visit acuiregion11.org. For more information and a complete list of all Union Program Council activities, visit k-state.edu/upc or call the Union Program Council office at 785-532-6571.

As oceanic plates subducts down into the mantle at convergent plate boundaries, friction on the interface with the overriding plate causes a stick-slip behavior. The overriding plate is pulled down by the subducting plate in areas of strong coupling, accumulating strain on the megathrust fault until slip occurs and the overriding plate pops back up. This process generates major earthquakes such as the 2004 tsunami-generating Sumatra-Andaman event. Recent observations have also revealed slow slip episodes on the deeper plate interface with the motion indicating the release of accumulated strain, but these episodes typically last much longer than an earthquake. Corresponding seismic tremor composed of relatively small, monotonic signals also appear to occur near the deeper plate interface. Together the correlated strain and seismic observations characterize episodic tremor and slip (ETS) events, which recur with regular intervals that range from months to years. The processes that govern ETS and the potential relationships to major earthquakes remain unknown. Nevertheless, these events have been proposed to have significant impact on the likelihood of megathrust earthquakes since they appear to occur over adjacent depth ranges along the same plate interface. This project seeks to examine whether there are observable characteristics of the plate interface that could influence the frictional behavior and hence what type of seismic activity occurs.

So the week of orientation is almost over, I have to catch a shuttle at 5:30 AM tomorrow. The week has been an amazing experience. New Mexico Tech is a beautiful school and although small they own their own golf course! The weather is nice and warm especially compared to Reno where it was starting to snow when I boarded my plane. I met the other interns from all across the country and they have all been really cool. I have learned that even in the US the cultures on the East and West coast are completely different. I will miss this week and talking to everyone and am looking forward to the blog posts to see how everyone is doing on their research. We hiked up to almost 11,000 feet; the view was amazing:

My favorite part was having all of these professors with clear schedules that I could ask questions to. I have learned a lot and got some awesome scripts for GMT and MATLAB and I feel pretty prepared going into this coming week. I am looking forward to starting my research on fault tremors in Ohio. I am still a little unsure about exactly what I will be doing for the summer but I do have a few goals:- I want to make some new friends and explore Ohio.

Thos were the main skills that I had honed in on over the summer. I also learned a lot of information about my specific topic, triggered tremor. There are still many unanswered questions. This I found was something that came along with research. As I though I found a correlation there came more questions. It seemed like I would never reach the answer. I could have easily spent a year on this project. I left with many unanswered questions and possible solutions that would just take to much time to try to isolate. I will have a great poster at AGU though and will maintain my contact with Mike to finish it. I will be attending the Rocky Mountain Rendezvous to present my poster and interview with Noble Energy. I really did enjoy the summer and learned so much. I will keep in touch with everybody and I am looking forward to seeing everyone at AGU.

So last week was a crazy week with the abstract being do. All of the data I had gone through all sumer had to be organized as well as coming up with some conclusions. After discussing with mike the day it was due we found that the code that I had written could still use a little work. We did come to some conclusions and I really do like my abstract. It reads really well and I think it will make for a very cool poster. Anyways I was super glad to get it submitted and get that off my chest. I have a lot of stuff to do before I depart. This project won't be over even after I leave. Mike will want to go through all the stuff that I have done. This leads me to the first thing that need to be done: a file directory. In order for Mike to understand all my files and organization I have decided to leave him a README file of all my files. This will help him navigate my mess of folders and also has a brief description of all the c-shell scripts I have written. The next thing to do is to make another figure for my poster. This figure is something mike wants to look at as it compares the amplitude and directivity of arriving surface waves with events that triggered tremor and ones that did not. Before I leave on Saturday I would like to have my poster done... or at least close to done because when I get back to Reno the busy life begins again. Another goal is to kick butt on my GRE on Friday. I have been reading the study book and it doesn't seem to bad....except the vocabulary section. I mean Seriously.... I haven't seen those words in any of my textbooks!

So once again it has been a pretty productive week. Mostly I have been working on an algorithm to automate location of the tremor I found visually. I have put a lot of time into these scripts and found out that my advisor does not comment his code! This means a lot of my time is spent deciphering through what the code does. I think the most time consuming things is that it always calls specific files, since Mike was the one who formatted it he knows how the columns are organized. I have to pull that file to see how it's formatted to see what is being pulled out of the file. Anyways enough about the deciphering and on to what I have accomplished.

So my idea was to iterate over the section of surface waves where my tremor would occur. I have SAC try to cross correlate the envelope function that has been filtered within the 6-10Hz range. This search uses a base station as reference and searches 400s on each side of the interval for peaks similar to the reference station. I wanted to iterate so that I could get a lot of locations that should be in the same region (this turned out to be lot of work), so I could get good average. So that as the basic idea, here is the first attempt of the code trying to locate one event:

I say again, this was supposed to be ONE event. This was not the greatest first attempt. I mean the good news is there is clustering in two different locations, which means there is some promise. I tried a few different things with this code. I tried changing the search from 400s to 100s and everything in between. I also tried changing the iteration value from 25s to 10s all the way down to 5s. None of these adjustments really made a difference, everything still seemed pretty scattered. So I went back to the drawing board. I still felt like I had the right idea of iterating over the tremor event so I stayed with it. I took a closer look and I had lots of locations that were using only 2 stations! I also realized that the cross-correlation value, the ratio of how similar the waves are, was only .5. So for the next attempt I ended up struggling through some code to make sure that I had a correlation value of at least .65 on 4 stations. This new code zoned in the locations! I still had a few locations outside the area of where tremor can occur. So i took a region and decided to throw out all the values outside the box, as they can't actually be locations and then averaged all the points and I have the final location. Here is the new map:

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