Well, I’m still catching up on the tired built up over the last 15 week semester and two week course in Maine. And unfortunately, as you may have noticed, I have not taken any pictures yet.
13 hours: Door to door. And that included a 90 minute delay, while already on the plane in Miami. Apparently a hydraulic valve needed to be replaced on our plane, but this wasn’t revealed to anyone until 200 so
mething passengers were all comfortably sandwiched onboard. The crew got us sandwiches to make up for the extra time spent on the plane. I don’t know about you, but a sandwich will make up for most wrongdoings in any situation. And, this thing was a beast; thick cut roast beef, ham and turkey topped with onions and mustard. Weighed in at over a pound.
Should you feel bad for using English in Miami?
It might have even been more impressive driving through Braulio Carillo National Park this year than it was doing it the first time in 2007. The shock of it was enhanced by coming from the more or less desolate coast of Maine to being surrounded by dense forest and thousands of species.
The rain forest has a healthy smell.
The second time around has also been met with a few more conveniences of knowing most people and the way things work. Amanda arrived a week ago and the Wellesley interns got in Sunday. A flip from being the first one here last May. With that comes the pressure to hit the ground running, and I’m ready for it. There’s a straight shot from here to thesis writing to manuscript submission to graduation and the real world.
Amanda secured us an office roughly four times the size of last year’s closet, plus it has a window! Amanda also dominated just about every shelf in the place, so my belongings currently are arranged neatly using the pile method. I’ll take a picture of what I look at when I write blog posts, so you can refer to it later on.
Could be a Mac ad right there.
Today was spaghetti lunch; it was awesome.
I haven’t done much so far today. Thought through all of my procedures and planned out the next couple of field days. Tomorrow I’ll head out to LEPS to set up my plots and start identifying and tagging trees. On Friday, Bernal will join me to help hunt down the harder-to-identify species out there. Hopefully, I’ll be able to learn the 15 species I’ll be coring by the end of the week.
The goal is to core about 400 trees, which will hopefully be about 25 per species. With lab work and plot set up I’d like to average 15 trees a day, but feel that I might be able to get that up to 20-25. The project may need expanding if I have a few weeks left over. Good thing I have no shortage of ideas.
The ice machine at La Selva is gone. This is a dramatic update. In its place is a gatorade cooler full of not just ice, but hunks of ice that have no business fitting inside of regular-sized glasses.
Water cooler:office (or Snow 437)::ice machine:La Selva.
Baseball is on TV tonight. A bunch of regulars from last year are back doing research, mostly Ph.D.-ers. Our new interns are Taylor and Hoi-Fei. Dr. Chazdon is here till Sunday and back in July. NSF gave me $200 to buy a bike, so that’s on the weekend’s agenda. Ta ta for now.
BP
3 comments:
I see you are getting you money out of those UCOC stickers. Also that sounded like one hell of a sandwich.
how many trees did they cut down to build you that wooden desk
dont you get sick of seeing green all the time. couldnt they paint the walls a different color?
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