Good day all,

We returned to the infamous “death marsh” today, named as such due to the deep deep muck that it is comprised of. We leveled into the official benchmark near by left from 1942 and then leveled out all the stations. On the way, back we nearly lost Cat to the mud when she began to sink in but readily recovered herself and on we went in the name of research. We also broke a record for this group’s longest leveling measure, 560 meters a real accomplishment. While one group was hitting record leveling levels the other was finding record amounts of foraminifera under the scope. Sky found 23 alone.
Before returning from death marsh, Simon and Giles practiced their “blue-steel” look. Hey are now ready for New York’s finest run ways. Another condition along with “marsh madness” has appeared; “foram frenzy” has set in amongst some of our group after sitting for three straight hours today looking for the little buggers.
Tomorrow a fellow from our sponsor group will be joining us in the field to get a taste of the research. We are enthusiastic to share our acquired knowledge with him and to keep him safe from the ominous marsh cat.


Cheers,
The Team