Hey all,
Today was the first full day of research. We returned to Oyster Bay for a second time, to learn to take both geochemical and transect samples. These can later be analyzed for particular organisms that vary depending on the salinity of the water in which they live. This data can later be used to figure out where the sea was in the past. Chris also took some samples for his geochemistry, which he will later analyze in his research. Candace took samples from the surface with one group to analyze the current organisms levels these will also be compared to a marsh survey transect. We also recorded the tide every six minutes to be able to plot that along the other levels that we come up with, in the end this multi-measuring system should complement each other and strengthen our data.
Our illustrious lifeguard arrived last night, Kate. We are now able to go swimming in the Chesapeake, which has many lovely living sand dollars. The water is very warm and quite pleasant unfortunately sunburns are beginning to crop up among our group. Foosball continues at the usual cutthroat speed and our leaders Chris and Simon jumped into the mix with varying results.
Chris gave a talk about his work last night, which varies from figuring out how to bury nuclear waste properly to cracking forged Egyptian artifacts. He uses a variety of equipment and heads up a team of five scientists at the British Geological Survey.
Our team has become seriously hardcore and ritual is come to be common practice. One group painted their faces with marsh muck and now goes be the name “marsh cats.” If you see a real marsh cat in the wild, it will be the last thing you see so beware. Candace and I took the most intense core yet . One could say it was a hardcore core. We crashed into the muck with such vigor that we got to 206 cm just about a record. Hatorade has become a great taboo as some people have come up with a couple negatives here and there.