Slowly we are getting more organized in th field and in the lab. In the field this requires things like replacing the strings on the control plots and building the experimental plots.  The control plots are a meter square, just four posts and string, and the experimental plots have chambers made of zipties and six trapezoid shaped pieces of fiber glass.  They are hexagons when viewed from above, but they cover the same area as the square control plots.

In the lab this requires sorting out things to take to Atqasuk and arbitrarily putting the rest of the things in the twenty-one drawers and cupboards our lab contains. It looks a mess right now, but I’m SURE that once we ship our professor back to Michigan (in one week) we can get everything all ship-shape.

On the internet this requires fixing my links in the right column. Now my friend Robert’s blog is easily accessible to all interested parties. He did this last year, so those posts are available there, too. Besides this, I changed the header picture and added a description, also available in the right-hand column. I hope to switch out pictures every so often and eventually post a more complete taste of what is going on, though I hesitate to strain the capacities of the internet.

In my room organizing requires packing up my things in case we are unceremoniously evicted from our quarters while we spend the next few days in Atqasuk. I also, of course, have to pack my bag to take with me tomorrow morning. We leave the lab at 6:30, so I’d better get crackin’. Good thing I am a quick and efficient packer- and a great folder, to boot!