NEW_Accomplishments.indd - IRIS

2006 IRIS 5-YEAR PROPOSAL EDUCATION AND OUTREACH
IRIS and PASSCAL INTERN
Aaron Hirsch • University of Nevada, Las Vegas
IRIS INTERN
The summer after my junior year, I had the great opportunity to participate in the IRIS summer internship. I worked with
Dr. Catherine Snelson at the University of Nevada Las Vegas. I was able to work and learn about seismic studies and instrumentation.
Before this internship, I had no experience with anything remotely close to seismology. From that moment, I was
hooked. I am now a graduate student at the University of Nevada Las Vegas with Dr. Cathy Snelson as my advisor. Without
this internship, I would not be where I am today
and I would not have realized by true passion in
geology. I love where my life and career are going
and this could not have been accomplished with
this IRIS internship.
in seismology. The associated picture is not of me
on any experiment because all of my field photos
are at UNLV. The photo is of me, extremely happy,
and doing what I love and that is what I hope this
1-pager has conveyed. I truly appreciate everything
that the IRIS-PASSCAL internship has done for
me. I hope that future interns have the same experience
that I was able to have. Thank you.
PASSCAL INTERN
It is ironic that I am the first to be both an IRIS
intern as well as a PASSCAL intern. I am currently
in Socorro, NM at PASSCAL working with every
seismic instrument imaginable. I am learning to
trouble-shoot, test, experiment, field-deployment,
data-analyze, and program all of the instrumentation
as well as the sensors. I have and continue to
learn a significant amount about seismology, the instrumentation
involved, and all the inner-workings
of PASSCAL. I have also developed many friendships
here that will continue throughout my career
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