Wowzers, two days in a row. To make up for 2+ pages of blog yesterday I’ll just update the most recent happenings including the seemingly simple (MCAT, coffee, sports) life getting increasingly complicated (coring, lab work). We have a pretty good story from last night that we’ve been spreading all day. Remember man movie night (300) (see above)...
We’re all sitting there watching the movie (completely badass) in the comedor for about an hour when a lady (tourist) walks over from the dorms across the street and asks us pretty nicely to turn down the volume. Of course this is a movie where the volume needs to be loud for dialogue and quiet for battle scenes. We squinted our ears for the next few scenes and then there was a battle and another tourist dude comes over and asks us to turn it down, but stresses the fact that he’s getting up at 5:30 a.m. to go bird watching (does that actually require energy?). And we turned it down lower and started making the dialogue up since no one could hear over the fans and ice machine and whatnot. Then a security alarm starts going bananas next door and it was about five times louder than our movie, so we turn the movie up of course and slowly more tourists in their pajamas migrate over looking super confused. The alarm stayed on for hours.
I was up before seven this morning, which was a welcome change of pace. Breakfasted and hit the trail to Lindero Sur for one more day of tree coring. The commute was pretty good and we cored 38 trees in under two hours and were back for lunch. At this point my field work is “over,” but I proceeded to add more fruit to my bowl. I verbally agreed to help Taryn chop down coffee trees one day (I know, not really me-behavior). In the afternoon I started emailing to set up and extracurricular project at yet another plantation for next week.
Still, not too much more work until we got to the greatest Team Chazdon coffee break of all time featuring Choppers on the calendar and Vanessa on the PowerBook. We basically mapped out the next three weeks of field work and lab work. Amanda will spend next week analyzing data while I’ll do my extracurricular project and core and process wood samples of Vanessa’s additional species. Looks like three more field days in the next week and one crazy night of lab work Thursday. I’ll also go to the field one day on the 29th for some more coring where we were today.
And that’s how my life got more complicated, but in essence Vanessa’s wood density work will also be work for my project because I’ll specifically look at radial gradients and carbon concentration. I’ll probably return home one week early (8/4) and be vacationing starting the first of August. Fun pictures from the last day on the porch and at coffee break. Thanks for the read!
BP
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