I currently am working at Scripps Institute of Oceanography, (known as SIO around here) and I am having a BLAST! I work with Eddie Kisfaludy, who is a local Marine Technician at SIO, as well as with Kevin Hardy. Yesterday, Eddie and I took some graduate students out to the kelp beds off of La Jolla cove and ran various collecting experiments. We collected various kinds of zooplankton and we also combed the sea floor with an otter troll to examine bethnic sea life.

With Mr. Hardy, I have been helping him construct a Free Vehicle which is going to be used on a Research Cruise aboard the R/V Robert Gordon Sproul. Mr. Hardy asked me if I had wanted to go, so I am currently preparing to leave port on a 8 day voyage out to San Clemente island where i will be able to take part in a study of the acoustics of blue whales. As you might suspect I am so excited and I will let you know how it goes as soon as I return.

Thanks again, and let me tell you that MTS sure made my summer.

Sincerely,
Peter Iwanowicz

I guarantee it will be impossible to get any negative feedback from me. The people, facilities, and activities here at the Scripps IGPP Vizualization Center are far beyond what I could have ever expected.

Not only did I get a chance to work on some of their best computers, I was also introduced to some incredible project ideas from day 1. I was amazed to find out that they didn't just want me to be a data monkey, but actually design and draw seismological 3D graphs to be projected onto a 20 foot long screen!

I will be forever grateful for this internship and the eye popping experience it has provided me after only the first week. Thanks for everything you have done to make this possible.

Sincerely,
Evan Morikawa

I have been interning at Oceaneering Technologies, and so far it's the most fun I've had all summer. Possibly this is because I was sick earlier in the summer, but I like to think that it's the people at Oceaneering. Everyone there has been welcoming and eager to share knowledge from his/her expertise. They have been teaching me basic electronics so that I can work on the mini-ROV that we are building. So far I have made schematics in AutoCad, soldered together a light array for the video camera on the ROV, made a block diagram of it, and programmed the BASIC Stamp that runs the light array. In addition, I have gotten little lessons in hydraulics, engineering, computer repair/ IT, how a big business works, and Oceaneering's large ROVs - the Scorpios. All in all this is a wonderful opportunity and I couldn't wish for a better company to intern for.

Thanks for organizing this program!
Erica Krimmel

My internship at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography has been going great. I have been working on the economic and environmental research involving the Yukon. I do counts and percent coverage calculation of invertebrates and plants on slides of the Yukon quadrates; I use the Image J program to do this. I also enter survey data onto an Excel spreadsheet for the economic research. This is really an amazing experience for me: Thank You!

Sincerely,
Naomi Schowalter

I have been thoroughly enjoying my work at Fugro Pelagos for the past few weeks. Everybody is very friendly and helpful to me. I work in the Data Center and have been familiarizing myself with several softwares. I spent the first week learning Arc GIS and working through a tutorial. Currently, I am working with two softwares that Fugro Pelagos developed as add-ons to ArcGIS, Starfix.GISChart and Cable Analyst. I have been quality testing, documenting, and writing tutorials. It has been such a great experience working at a 'real' company. The work that Fugro Pelagos does is very interesting and impressing. Thank you and the MTS Intern Program for providing me this opportunity.

Elizabeth Zhang

Things have been going very well for me in the MTS internship. I have been learning about all sorts of things this summer. From building electronic devices to proper phone etiquette, I've had a taste of more educational subjects than I had from any year of high school. They keep me occupied all the time with projects and assignments. Right now they have me working on a project concerning "whether or not UV LED's will prevent the growth of marine life and micro-organisms." I'm doing the research by myself and eventually I'll have to construct an experiment to test my hypothesis.

So far, I've found that the wood shop class I took at Mount Miguel to be the most helpful at Sidus Solutions. Most of what I have to do is hands-on; drilling holes in test equipment, putting devices together according to schematics, getting familiar with tools, and careful measurement. Sometimes they make me responsible for "quality checking" incoming parts. I was introduced to "calipers," a tool used to carefully measure dimensions to a thousandth of an inch.

Regrettably, I haven't been able to do much work with computers besides typing every once in a while. However, they had me do a little studying on a programming language called "PIC Assembly" (used to control some types of electronic equipment), which interested me greatly. Hopefully there will be an opportunity for me to experiment with it in the future.

The best thing I'm getting out of this internship is interaction with people. Occasionally I make phone calls to other companies concerning technical support or product availability. Also I have to communicate with everyone else at Sidus Solutions to get my assignments done. Team-work makes the difference in the business environment. It's a far different compared to school. The trolley ride is an enjoyable experience as well. I get along with the people on the trolley better than the students at Mount Miguel.

Thanks for checking up on me,
Raymond A. Buckley III