Photo Gallery Captions
Day 1 – Stream Profiles and Habitat Assessment Project: ARC-ORNL Summer Institute participants in the Stream Profiles and Habitat Assessment project, near First Creek. At this site, the stream has a good wide riparian zone that provides shade from mature trees, diversity of species of vegetation (but most bushes have been shaded out), shallow pools and riffles with small rocks. The stream here has been minimally impacted by man. We felt the water and it was nice and cool. We did note some chunks of asphalt from an old road closer to the creek, so the area is not totally unimpacted, and invasive plant species especially Microstegium here (also a Bull Thistle). We also toured the creek at the Arboretum and talked about how a creek can look similar to upper First Creek but have chemical contaminants that one needs to test for. We did not make it to the Civic Center Creek because we ran out of time.
Day 1 – Stream Profiles and Habitat Assessment Project: A culprit that we talked about in the safety portion of our meeting - some people had never seen poison ivy before so we identified it here. We have lots of Technu for washing after, if we are exposed to it and will wear long pants and shirts in the field. Now – on to day 2!
Day 2 – Reference Streams Comparison project: Searching for fish in Raccoon Branch, a tributary to Hinds Creek. Fish are stunned with an electrofishing, then captured by netting.
Day 2 – Reference Streams Comparison project: After capture, the fish are examined and identified to species. The number of each type of fish that is captured is recorded.
Day 2 – Reference Streams Comparison project: Everybody has to wear thick rubber gloves – we want to stun the fish, not the team members!
Day 2 – Reference Streams Comparison project: Fish are transferred from the net to a bucket, where they are allowed to recover before being released back to the stream. This is a sunny, bright day – but the stream is well shaded due to an abundance of riparian vegetation (trees and bushes) growing along the banks.
Day 2 – Stream Profiles and Habitat Assessment Project: Haley, Elizabeth, Kenny and Jonathan using elevation pole and recording data.
Day 2 – Stream Profiles and Habitat Assessment Project: Haley and Chloe inspect an invasive bull thistle along White Oak Creek.
Day 2 – Magnetically Confined Plasma Simulation and Visualization: S2 team group picture with visible light camera.
Day 2 – Magnetically Confined Plasma Simulation and Visualization: Same S2 team picture, but using infrared camera.
Day 2 – Magnetically Confined Plasma Simulation and Visualization: S2 team identifies a variety of plasma visible spectral lines using diffraction grating glasses.
Day 2 – Magnetically Confined Plasma Simulation and Visualization: Precise measurement of the electron charge to mass ratio.
Day 2 – Magnetically Confined Plasma Simulation and Visualization: Using a permanent magnet to bend electron orbits into odd helical shapes.
Day 2 – Magnetically Confined Plasma Simulation and Visualization: S2 team members express stress reliefon infrared TV after the second day of ARC lectures.
Day 3 – Stream Profiles and Habitat Assessment Project: We returned to our research on White Oak Creek. We found an ORNL Engineering benchmark in the sidewalk which has a recorded true elevation.
Day 3 – Stream Profiles and Habitat Assessment Project: Haley did the sighting today, Chloe took notes and held the creek tape.
Day 3 – Magnetically Confined Plasma Simulation and Visualization project: Learing about fueling fusion reactors with frozen pellets.
Day 3 – Magnetically Confined Plasma Simulation and Visualization project: ITER pellet injection explanation.
Day 3 – Magnetically Confined Plasma Simulation and Visualization project: Pellet injection description.
Day 3 – Magnetically Confined Plasma Simulation and Visualization project: Demonstration of cryogenic deuterium ice dual extruder.
Day 3 – Magnetically Confined Plasma Simulation and Visualization project: Firing a high speed deuterium ice pellet.
Day 3 – Magnetically Confined Plasma Simulation and Visualization project: Checking the logbook and firing the next pellet.
Day 3 – Magnetically Confined Plasma Simulation and Visualization project: Making designs out of the soft indium wire used for cryogenic seals in the pellet extruder.
Day 3 – Magnetically Confined Plasma Simulation and Visualization project: Group picture in ORNL's fusion pellet injection laboratory.
Day 4 – Stream Profiles and Habitat Assessment Project: Kenny reading the elevations.
Day 4 – Stream Profiles and Habitat Assessment Project: Haley moving the rod along the transect.
Day 4 – Stream Profiles and Habitat Assessment Project: Chloe and Elizabeth describing the vegetation on the north bank of White Oak Creek near the HTML building.
Day 4 – Build a Supercomputer Project: Team members continued their work towards understanding programming fundamentals such as control, loop and decision structures.
Day 4 – Build a Supercomputer Project: Through hands-on programming examples, the team practiced employing these programming fundamentals to solve problems. Team members were also exposed to software installation tools and procedures.
Day 6 - Stream Profiles and Habitat Assessment Project: The group being taught by John Smith and with Steve Lewis.
Day 6 - Stream Profiles and Habitat Assessment Project: The group being taught by John Smith and with Steve Lewis.
Day 7 - Stream Profiles and Habitat Assessment Project: Jonathan and Elizabeth got to wade in the creek as they measured and mapped vegetation and physical characteristics of the creek between transects.
Day 7 - Stream Profiles and Habitat Assessment Project: Kenny enthusiastically carrying the rod through brush, down banks, across the area with the oil absorbent booms and up the HTML bank.
Day 7 - Stream Profiles and Habitat Assessment Project: Kenny enthusiastically carrying the rod through brush, down banks, across the area with the oil absorbent booms and up the HTML bank.
Day 7 - Stream Profiles and Habitat Assessment Project: Chloe and Haley did the sighting and recording and kept their feet dry.
Day 8 - Stream Profiles and Habitat Assessment Project: White board with the summary of all of our transect distance and compass readings.
Day 8 - Stream Profiles and Habitat Assessment Project: Chris Allen working with Kenny and Jonathan to enter our last data into excel.
Day 8 - Computing and Visualization Applied to Fusion Energy: A student observes this colorful demonstration conducted by the Computing and Visualization Applied to Fusion Energy team.