Jess and I ran into a roadblock with IRB, so we have been trying to work on the other aspects of our project in the meantime. Since we aren’t meeting for class on Tuesday, we plan to use that time to type up different pages of the website and finalize the layout of the website.… Continue reading Stuck
As Jess and I have been setting up our proposal, research plan, and the other assignments, we realized that we have a lot of work ahead of us. Nonetheless, we are making fairly good progress on the project. We actually found out that our roommate’s dad worked with some of the fracking companies in our… Continue reading
Jessica Towey and Claire Bachman 9/15/2017 Working Title: FRACK THAT: The Impacts of Hydraulic Fracturing in Tioga County Pennsylvania Description & Mission/Goals: Hydraulic fracturing is a technique developed to stimulate oil production from wells or extract natural gas. More recently, fracking has been used to extract oil and natural gas from reservoirs in places where… Continue reading Proposal
The past few weeks have really been a whirlwind here, but I’m slowly grasping at new footholds. Jess and I have both been incredibly busy with school work, so we paused our research for a few days to get up to speed with what we have going on here. However, this is not to say… Continue reading Overwhelmed, but still excited
Jess and I have been working on gathering together the pieces of information we have found so far, but we are eager to find more sources and new information. So far, we have contacted the person in charge of IRB- he was actually our professor last semester- and we have planned a meeting with him… Continue reading Frack That
Jess and I are making some progress on our topic. The good news is that we definitely have decided to settle on fracking. We talked to one of our librarians and she was able to help us find a few books on the general topic of fracking, but the librarian who had expertise in our… Continue reading Making Progress
I have never used a blog before, so this might take a little time for me to get used to, but I think I will be able to figure it all out! Right now, Jess and I are brainstorming ideas and we think that we have one idea that could really work well for this… Continue reading Weekend Research