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I made my Project Task List today...so here it is! 1. Read/Review Student Papers 2. Literature Search 3. Look at the information provided in our Student Apps file 4. Get to know master excel spreadsheet with their data 5. Get more acquainted with a general background of astronomy type things and what we will be dealing with 6. Learn how-to calculate SFR
 * October 21, 2007**

Tonight I read Zackery Schroeder's paper on "Galaxy Clusters: The Local Effects on Star Synthesis." It was very informative. It provided an excellent outline of Star Formation Rates and the High Redshift Galaxies. I understood what Schroeder did in his project and how he came to the results that he did. This was a very readable paper, which was helpful, because I am not the most savvy person when it comes to science! I'm curious where the equation for SFR came from. Was that something that he was able to come up with on his own after research? Or is this a standard equation? I'm also wondering if there are only three high redshift galaxy clusters in the universe, because the other paper only mentioned three galaxies, also. Where should we be going on this project. It seems that Schroeder already found the SFR for these three galaxies, so what should we be doing to further this project? We could focus on one galaxy, maybe? I'm not sure if there would be enough information available on this.

Today in class, I made this snazzy new page for my logbook and began to update it. This took me all of class to do; I also spent time typing the above entry. Tonight I also worked on my logbook.
 * October 22, 2007**

Today in class, I read DL's comments on CC's task list. In it, he suggested that we e-mail Dr. Rudnick, who will be helping us with our project throughout the year, and introduce ourselves to him. I started that e-mail in class, but I didn't finish it. We then talked about the grades and expectations for us in the class. I finally e-mailed Dr. Rudnick when I got home and am awaiting his response.
 * October 23, 2007**

Today I found out about the poster that we are supposed to be making for the Spitzer conference. After that, I spent the rest of class looking up information on student projects at Spitzer and how Spitzer is working with students. I found a handbook for the site that is very informative. I have to read more of it, because I think it will be helpful when making the poster.
 * October 24, 2007**

Today was a very productive day for my partner and I. It was really the first time that we collaborated our efforts and talked about SFR. We chatted the entire period about our poster and read the mock-up that DL sent to us. We are still somewhat unclear of what it is that we are supposed to be doing, but we are basically on the same page with everything else. We also worked on the Glossary on our SFR page together and added pictures to it. However, we are also unsure of where to go next with our project. We have to still find out the basics of what the students last year did and how they produced their data. I have not yet heard back from Dr. Rudnick. I also filled out my rubric tonight at home.
 * October 25, 2007**

Today Curt and I updated more of the glossary on our page. We also started to look up some information about redshift and how time related to redshift. We found a really interesting converter on the internet. It converts type of redshift into time. We played around on that for a little bit, and added the link to our wikipage. That will probably be helpful once we start in on that part of the project.
 * October 26, 2007**

Today I updated my logbook.
 * October 28, 2007**

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