Andrew Lee
The past few weeks of the Stanford Earth Young Investigators...
posted July 25, 2017
The past few weeks of the Stanford Earth Young Investigators has been busy yet exciting! Me and my data collection partner Saket have continued measuring and recording butterfly dimensions, and we have currently recorded 1,871 specimen!
The most memorable experience of this program so far has been our overnight trip to Pinnacles National Park. On the first day, we travelled to the park, stopping along the way to find fossils of small shelled organisms. Once at the campsite, I pitched my tent with Ryan and ate fajitas for dinner. After dinner, we spent the rest of the day observing moths, black widows, and the local raccoons that visited the campsite. The next day, we went on long, winding hike up the Pinnacles High Peaks Trail, which had a great view of the surrounding area.
We have also started working on our personal research projects, which we will eventually present in the form of a poster. I am also working on the research project (also with Saket), and we are researching the correlation between body size / volume and extinction rate in Echinoidea. Our plan for the project is to gather echinoid data off of a downloadable database, and then plot patterns in body length / volume and extinction data.
I look forward to the final couple of weeks of my Stanford internship!
The past few weeks of the Stanford Earth Young Investigators...
posted July 25, 2017
The past few weeks of the Stanford Earth Young Investigators has been busy yet exciting! Me and my data collection partner Saket have continued measuring and recording butterfly dimensions, and we have currently recorded 1,871 specimen!
The most memorable experience of this program so far has been our overnight trip to Pinnacles National Park. On the first day, we travelled to the park, stopping along the way to find fossils of small shelled organisms. Once at the campsite, I pitched my tent with Ryan and ate fajitas for dinner. After dinner, we spent the rest of the day observing moths, black widows, and the local raccoons that visited the campsite. The next day, we went on long, winding hike up the Pinnacles High Peaks Trail, which had a great view of the surrounding area.
We have also started working on our personal research projects, which we will eventually present in the form of a poster. I am also working on the research project (also with Saket), and we are researching the correlation between body size / volume and extinction rate in Echinoidea. Our plan for the project is to gather echinoid data off of a downloadable database, and then plot patterns in body length / volume and extinction data.
I look forward to the final couple of weeks of my Stanford internship
My name is Andrew Lee...
posted July 10, 2017
My name is Andrew Lee, and I am working with Noel Heim in the biodiversity group this summer. This summer, the biodiversity group has been measuring the
body sizes and basal apical length (essentially wingspan) of various species of butterflies. We are studying butterflies in a larger effort to understand
the change in size over time of certain organisms. So far, my partner and I have already measured the dimensions of nearly 800 butterflies!
When we’re not measuring butterflies, my group gets to hear about the current studies and research of Stanford students and graduates. Through these talks,
we have learned more about the butterflies we are studying and about environmental issues such as groundwater depletion and the California drought. Furthermore,
we recently went on a trip to Capitola beach, where we found fossils of what we assumed to be dolphins, whales, and mollusks in the rocks. I look forward to the
coming weeks of this program, and am excited to learn more from the Stanford community!
