Debriefing on Skidaway Trip
Well, after all that driving, we're back from Savannah. It was an interesting, if short, trip. Dr. Ingall, Vivian and I were down at Skidaway Institute of Oceanography for the past two days. The purpose was sample collecting for our respective projects.
For Vivian's project on electrodyalsis, we had to collect and filter about 100 liters of seawater. That only took about 5 hours, and we only managed to blow out about 4 filters. Heh, and the floor in the Benthic Wet lab got mopped several times.
We collected my samples this morning. These were sediment plugs and some buckets of marsh mud that we collected off the boardwalk in the ecological preserve. Thankfully, we got it all before the tide came back in, flooding the whole place. The muck was really thick, and I got stuck twice in it up to my knees. Vivian and I were both down in there and we both got pretty nasty. There was a camera present, so I'll try and get the pictures up. Anyway, the mud is all up in the cores and buckets and is down in the Environmental Control Room for storage over the weekend.
Afterward, we took Vivian to Old Savannah and had lunch on River St.. Spanky's was as good as usual. We are well in the process of getting her addicted to sweet tea.
All in all, we will see how good the samples turn out to be in the next few days. We will go back down in about a month, when it's hotter and there are more bugs. Joy.
Current Music: The Best of REM
Quote of the Day:
"If you believe everything you read, better not read."
- Japanese Proverb
For Vivian's project on electrodyalsis, we had to collect and filter about 100 liters of seawater. That only took about 5 hours, and we only managed to blow out about 4 filters. Heh, and the floor in the Benthic Wet lab got mopped several times.
We collected my samples this morning. These were sediment plugs and some buckets of marsh mud that we collected off the boardwalk in the ecological preserve. Thankfully, we got it all before the tide came back in, flooding the whole place. The muck was really thick, and I got stuck twice in it up to my knees. Vivian and I were both down in there and we both got pretty nasty. There was a camera present, so I'll try and get the pictures up. Anyway, the mud is all up in the cores and buckets and is down in the Environmental Control Room for storage over the weekend.
Afterward, we took Vivian to Old Savannah and had lunch on River St.. Spanky's was as good as usual. We are well in the process of getting her addicted to sweet tea.
All in all, we will see how good the samples turn out to be in the next few days. We will go back down in about a month, when it's hotter and there are more bugs. Joy.
Current Music: The Best of REM
Quote of the Day:
"If you believe everything you read, better not read."
- Japanese Proverb