Who? What?

Seeing as how I'm essentially telling the story of my Volcanology REU here, I may as well introduce who the 8 of us are and what we're doing on a small carribean island. The REU is based out of the University of Arkansas, and so 4 of the 8 are from there:
Glen- The professor in charge. Cool guy, typical geology prof, like gin and tonics, lived in Puerto Rico for 10 years, knew a kid I made friends with at the National Geography Bee in 1999.
Henry- Ph.D. grad student, long hair, kind of looks like a pirate, especially when weilding a macete. Is pretty much in charge of the project- knows where all the sites are, knows how the equipment works, etc.
Richard- Masters grad student. Cool guy. Likes partying/chilling, a field geologist who takes the time to looks at rocks with me while others are setting up GPS units. Got hit up for $40 worth of whiskey in San Juan
Matt-UArk undergrad honors student. Actually a physics major here to work with the GPS equipment. Not that interested in rocks. A bit nerdier than the others, always carries a pencil in his ear (he took a shower and put the pencil back behind his ear before leaving the bathroom), doesn't laugh at my jokes (not to say that he should be).
The other 4 are all undergrads at different places:
Shannon (Mt. Holyoak) - Plays field hockey, has more of an engineering interest and did a weather-related REU last summer
Kaitlyn (Michigan Tech)- The only non rising senior among us (she's an '09). Also leans more engineering. Pretty cool person, plays ultimate when she can, though it's kind of difficult at a school that's 75% guys and is under snow most of the year (M. Tech is in the upper peninsula).
Clay (SUNY Genso)- The person I've gotten along with best so far. Cool guy, yeah, I get along with him.
And then there's me, the late arrival from Dartmouth. (hi!).

So that's the group. What we're here doing is GPS geodosy. What that menas is that we set up highly accurate (fractions of mm's) GPS units all over the island, and then compare their position to the positions recorded at the same site in previous years, and see if the site moved. This allows us to hopefully locate and track rising magma in the volcanic system beneath the island because rising magma will actually push up the overlying crust, deforming it a few mm's, which is enough for our GPS units to see. The project is still young though, so a lot of our time will be spent finding and setting up new sites for future research groups to use. Should be a cool project to work on. Basically it means all our time on the island is spent outside hiking around and setting up sites.