Yesterday marked my last day as a practicum student with NRCan even if my work had already been finished. Yesterday the co-op students from the Unversity of Waterloo and myself gave presentations of our projects in front of the scientists from Anderson rd and CHIS's director David Mccormack. The presentation itself was an interesting experience. I only learned that I was supposed to give the presentation a week before and from the way it was described to me I thought it would be a much shorter and more informal presentation, updating my coworkers as to what I had been working on the past few months. While it turns out I was supposed to give a longer more technical presentation, I didn't have an issue doing this as I was very familiar with the ins and outs of my project.
Despite David saying that I did well on my presentation, he didn't like that I had been instructed to make the the map using vector data while the NOAA had used raster data. At the end of the day my project was being done because the NOAA requested that NRCan make a geoelectric map to compliment theirs. David wanted to keep our map looking and functioning as similar to theirs as possible so it is easy to use by their scientists. If the NOAA updates their map in the future that is when we would go back and improve ours, not before. He said that he would discuss changing the map with my supervisors who both oppose changing it. In the meantime he asked if I would be able to add a section onto my report detailing how we would be able to remake the map as close to NOAA's should it come to that.
Other than the final presentation this semester has been much more relaxed than last semester. I had all my login credentials and software installed so I was able to start working as soon as the semester started and didn't need to work on any offline side projects like I did last semester.
I want to thank my project supervisors, David Boteler, Lidia Nikitina, and Larisa Trichtchenko for their help over the year and giving me this wonderful opportunity to work with the Space Weather team.
Despite David saying that I did well on my presentation, he didn't like that I had been instructed to make the the map using vector data while the NOAA had used raster data. At the end of the day my project was being done because the NOAA requested that NRCan make a geoelectric map to compliment theirs. David wanted to keep our map looking and functioning as similar to theirs as possible so it is easy to use by their scientists. If the NOAA updates their map in the future that is when we would go back and improve ours, not before. He said that he would discuss changing the map with my supervisors who both oppose changing it. In the meantime he asked if I would be able to add a section onto my report detailing how we would be able to remake the map as close to NOAA's should it come to that.
Other than the final presentation this semester has been much more relaxed than last semester. I had all my login credentials and software installed so I was able to start working as soon as the semester started and didn't need to work on any offline side projects like I did last semester.
I want to thank my project supervisors, David Boteler, Lidia Nikitina, and Larisa Trichtchenko for their help over the year and giving me this wonderful opportunity to work with the Space Weather team.
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