Abstract Art

Never fear, week 10 is here. And what a week we've had so far, not to mention week 9. I suppose that is where I should begin. Week 9 of our summer research was a whirlwind. After figuring out all that we needed to know about TDA, we were thrust into overdrive mode as we were to be presenting a poster at the Wisconsin Space Grant Consortium Conference, which was Friday of last week. So a large percentage of our efforts were focused on finalizing everything that we felt we needed to squeeze into our poster (including our much refined abstract) to showcase all of the wonderful intricacies of TDA. Once we presented as well as enjoyed the wonderful talks and posters of everyone else attending WSGC, we were in the clear. Not. This week, another abstract was required, as our research talks are upon us (tomorrow, in fact).

However, despite this seemingly hectic and packed schedule, we somehow found time to generate a reasonably cool and actually semi-useful result from our TDA endeavors. I was able to create a surface representing the difference between ATom observed ozone and climate-model-calculated ozone versus latitude. From this plot we can visualize what parts of the globe are in the least agreement with models, so as to better narrow our focus perhaps for future atmospheric measurement missions.

Armed with this new, exciting discovery, I was able to add an interesting results section to my research talk, that, along with the other wonderful talks created by my colleagues, will hopefully dazzle and amaze at our end of the summer symposium.