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==About Me==
Hello! I'm Theresa Chen, student at Carleton College, class of '22. I am a double major in environmental studies and computer science.

==Work Log==
===Week 1===
Working part-time due to still being in school <br />
'''''Tuesday 6/1'''''
*Attend REU orientation
*Attend mini data science boot camp
'''''Wednesday 6/2'''''
*Continue mini data science boot camp
'''''Thursday 6/3'''''
*Attend Good Research Practices Talk by Dr. Brylow

===Week 2===
'''''Tuesday 6/8'''''
*Meet with Dr. Puri, discuss overall research goals
*Begin literature review
'''''Wednesday 6/9'''''
*Responsible Conduct of Research (RCR) training
*Attend REU event on technical writing
'''''Thursday 6/10'''''
*Continue lit review
*Familiarize self with different ICESAT-2 data products
*Watch some tutorials from ICESAT-2 hackweek
'''''Friday 6/11'''''
*Lit review- looking at articles related to areas of interest in the arctic
*Meet with Dr. Puri
*Narrow down interest to ATL03 files, start pre-processing data

===Week 3===
'''''Monday 6/14'''''
*Continue lit review
*Explore captoolkit, used to process ATL06 open altimetry data
*Try to reduce HDF5 file to only variables selected for project
'''''Tuesday 6/15'''''
*Visualize raw photon height data from selected study area in the arctic
*Experiment with data visualizations 
*Review past paper from old REU participant Erin Doyle
*Meet with Dr. Puri, decide to expand variable selection
'''''Wednesday 6/16'''''
*Working on processing HDF5 to csv
*Went to REU Professional Event 
*Created REU Wiki pages
'''''Thursday 6/17'''''
*Double checking data sets by visualizing photon heights to see if elevation makes sense
*Obtaining datasets for several areas near the arctic circle
*Beginning machine learning tutorials using "keras" package
'''''Friday 6/18'''''
*Working on creating neural network
*Mostly debugging tensorflow installation 
*Experimenting with hyperparameters like epochs and batch size to reduce loss and increase accuracy
===Week 4===
'''''Monday 6/21'''''
*Predicted results from NN still have very low accuracy, still trying to fix
'''''Tuesday 6/22'''''
*Fixing uneven output types for NN model
*Fixing low accuracy for NN model
*Met with Satish to discuss expectations for the coming week
'''''Wednesday 6/23'''''
*Finally got working results for NN model
*Working to visualize and compare results for height prediction
*Learning how to use geopandas and geoplot