Primario

Interestingly enough, it’s another good day for the number two. Finished my second hectare of height measurements this afternoon in the Lindero Sur plot. Tinny got an early start this morning after being suggested to ride the bike down the STR on the way to the plot. I joined her 40-45 minutes later a kilometer down the trail.

Spent another hour doing the bike thing before putting it aside and continuing on to the plot. Got to work at 11:00am and all went very smoothly thanks to our flagging the day before. Confident in my data and dreading carrying the tripod back to the lab we left the plot at 2:00pm. Got back and did typical afternoon things.

The book I’m reading has gotten to a chapter on Einstein and I realized how much I really do love physics and how good it is that I chose it as a major. In my little world it was a very welcome reassurance since the decision to do physics was sort of arbitrary.

Tonight’s dinner ranked right up there with the weirdest of my summer. Essentially the entire comedor smelled like barbecue sauce on a grill when we walked in. From here I knew I would be disappointed, just not how much. Turned out to be a flavorless combination of chickpeas and hunks of ham. Just plain odd, and, did I mention, tasteless.

Strained the brain thinking about this cool analysis I want to do involving tree recruitment. At one point my plan would have called for 2.16 million points in a plot. Realized it was time to be less ambitious. Trying something out tomorrow.

Oh, and hence the title of the blog our next plot is in primary forest near the back of the property. Started with a 35 year-old forest, then a 20-year old one and now a “virgin” forest although that’s probably not true. Also worked on my write up of my methods today, didn’t realize it would take 3-plus pages of type and figures to explain what exactly I do out there.

Here for 27 days more at the most, need to be in the field 9 of those days. We’ll see what we can do. Talk to you tomorrow!

BP