A Case of the Mondays

Today we had our first field day since our common product presentations. I still hadn’t really figured out what I was going to do but Dr. Becker and Dr. Wechsler were both going to have their first opportunity to view the valley, and I went around with them . Considering Dr. Becker’s expertise with Geology and Hydrology, he had an interest seeing what we had observed throughout the week, so me and Gordon went around with him to show him some of the highlights. It was really interesting to have the opportunity to view the valley with the two of them, and I gained some new insight. We took a walk up to the top of the ridge again, and I felt lucky to get a second chance to see the awesome view. We drove back to the base for lunch, and hopped on to the vegetation group for a hot minute and listened to the plant experts talk about all the species the vegetation group hadn’t been able to identify. We didn’t stay for the whole tour though, because those of us interested in hydrology went down to the shore to try and take some preliminary conductivity readings. We didn’t identify any seeps, and apparently the shore was a little too choppy to get any definitive readings with the hand probes.

Later at dinner, a couple of us communicated our trepidation and confusion in coming up with a research question, and the professors decided we would have a more in depth discussion on the subject tomorrow morning before anything concrete had to be decided.