The Year of Our Lord, Jebediah Nephelo

Today we had a short field day to tie up any remaining loose ends with our projects, and to help any groups who needed to still collect data. As the hydrology group, we figured we should collect some more turbidity data, as it was really the only meaningful tool we have to measure water quality (the flow is too low and inconsistent to provide meaningful data). Samples were collected in the inflows and outflows to the lowland swamp area at the back of the watershed. This done, we headed back to base and discovered everyone had left to go look at a laser scanner which was taking readings at the old sugar mill on the ranch. We decided to go try and find some fish ponds that supposedly existed on the north end of the valley, but didn’t have much luck finding them.

At about 12:30, we went back to Tradewinds and spent the rest of the day pulling together the Hydrology dataset. As always, ArcGIS is a giant wormhole capable of bending spacetime and somehow the process took about 6 hours, but overall I am happy with the result. On Sunday I will present but tomorrow I will enjoy my first Saturday being 21.