Monday, December 10, 2007

Great Lab Partner

Lab Blab #4
When Jay and I first reported for our REU – Research Experience for Undergrads: I just thanked my Lucky Stars. I have grown sons and appreciate truly interested young people. Jay has a quiet exuberance about him. What a great sense of cooperation and willingness to tend carefully to our work! He is so much fun! We bailed all the soil samples out of the deep freeze, sorted them into groups by ecosystem and then by numbers identifying survey transect points along the Elwha River. Our hands were tired by the time we had 68 containers and lids perfectly labeled. We started all over the next day, weighing out samples, checking and rechecking labels, numbers, and weights. We really wanted to get it right; recording everything on each container and the data sheets.
Now we were ready to follow Dr. Bill’s advise on the FE Method for Carbon Assessment! Stay tuned! The excitement has just begun!

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