More Data!

Today was a whole lot like yesterday.

We took data again!

It’s funny how it works, though, because after three days of taking data, we’ve become extremely efficient, and the time seems to go by a lot faster. Not that it’s a good or bad thing, but before lunch time even rolled around today, we already had nine points. We did start earlier, but as far as points per hour, we were almost doubling our previous rate.

We covered the beach, which was slightly alarming at times since the road was sort of smack dab in the middle of our research area, and then returned after seeing some of the UAVs take off so we could go watch them fly. Unfortunately, on the way we passed through a cow pasture. Poor choice. Turns out that cows, though not threatening individually, are actually quite intimidating when they’re running, towards you, in a group, with the intent of scaring you away by stampede. And it works pretty darn well too, because it had us running full speed in the opposite direction.

Besides that, the day was without much particular excitement, besides a swim in the ocean, several spontaneous rain showers, and one very exciting moment of figuring out how to add decimal degrees to an attribute table stuck in easting and northing without ArcGIS help, Google, or any grad students or professors. Not that that’s particularly impressive, but for having already been awake since very early this morning, I’m feeling pretty good about my mental capacity right now.

So as I fall asleep on my computer, threatening to drool alllllll over it, goodnight!