Acknowledgments
There are many people who played an important role in this research project, and I'd like to acknowledge all of their contributions here.
Thanks to Xcel Energy, my scholar and research sponsor for the summer. You gave me an amazing oppurtunity by helping me come to FSI and I really appreciate it. Thanks to Lori Ball, the head of the FSI program, for letting me into the program and organizing and coordinating everything that goes on with FSI so that we can have an amazing time in the program. Thanks to Amy Dunn, Maurice Woods III, and Sean Hoskins, our teachers and advisers in the program, for helping us learn all about science this summer and for reading all of the rough drafts of our papers and watching our practice presentations. Thanks to Jessica Constant and Christopher Krause,our RAs, for putting up with us all summer and doing their best to keep us in line and making sure that we did what we needed to do. Thanks to Cassandra Modahl, my research mentor, for helping me so much with this project, answering all of my questions, and introducing me to a topic of research that I never knew could be so interesting. Thanks to Steve Mackessy for letting me use his lab and equipment for this research. Thanks to Reba Zimmerle, my research partner, for working o hard on this project and helping make it an enjoyable experience for me. Also, thanks for taking so many awesome pictures, editing and labeling our gel pictures, and for making the awesome range map that we used. And last, but certainly not least, thanks to my family for being so supportive and not minding that I chose to spend so much of my summer away from them. Thank you to all of you for helping me with my research and making my experience at FSI so amazing. I couldn't have done this without you. |