Fieldwork – Day 1
Having made the 12 hour journey to Assynt, northwest Scotland, the day before, we set out to find a suitable…
Posts from September 2014
Fieldwork – Day 2
On the second day, we went to visit the landowner to ask if he had any information about the depth…
Fieldwork – Day 3
On the last day of fieldwork, we headed to Loch Duart to collect some sediment cores from the boat. We…
Lab work – Troels-Smith
We used Troels-Smith classification to identify the sediments in the cores we collected from Loch Duart, and gave a brief…
Lab work – forams
We sifted the sediment samples prepared earlier through two sieves, one larger to remove the coarser particles from the samples,…
DAY 9 – POST FLIGHT CHECKS
Today was a quiet day spent cleaning all of the kit and getting it ready for storage e.g. discharging batteries…
DAY 10 – VALIDATION POINTS AND WRAPPING UP
We are now sadly getting towards the end of our trip with only a couple of days left. In the…
DAY 8 – SUCCESS
So today was the day flew, and it was great! A crowd from the local village we had driven through…
DAY 6 – PROCESSING PROCESSING PROCESSING
Being a Sunday there were very few other people were working so we couldn’t go anywhere to collect data. So as…
CAKE ANYONE?
Last night it was Rajiv’s birthday so we went to his house and had cake followed by dinner with his…