Back to Civilization (kinda)
MFT: Air conditioning
LFP: Noise!
Hallo, so yesterday we made the mass exodus from our cozy lovely (if buggy) island, Eneko, back to the main island Majuro. We went from like 2 other people a day to you know a city sized number of people. We got to wake up and move several times our 20 bags of stuff. Then we got to do some field work. Needless to say, it was a very long day.
We actually had a pretty good morning (in terms of productivity). We moved all the equipment over to Majuro successfully (aka nothing broke or got left behind). We set up the RTK system on the roof of the hotel in Maj (very scary roof). We even sat down and ate lunch (nice change from PB&J). Then we rented a car and starting driving with the GPR and RTK going. Here we ran into our first snags. We managed to start GPRing right as all the children in the island were going home for lunch from school. So imagine the small streets suddenly filled with kids of all ages and us trying to drive through it. We've got this weird box towed very slowly behind our car and antennas stuck to our roof. Of course we were swarmed by interested kids. They thought it was a hoot to try to touch the GPR or jump in the car or run in front of us in the middle of the road. Mostly harmless until you are trying to not hurt anyone and get reasonable data.
We finally gave up on part of the island and started driving to the other end. It turns out that Majuro island is made up of like 10 different islands that have been joined together so it goes on and on and on! It took us almost 2 hours to get to the other end of the island. Luckily we stopped for iced coffee and bathrooms at the airport along the way. Laura beach (at the other end of the island from us) is a really pretty and cute village where we had much more success with GPR (by that point, all 33 miles from the base station) our RTK signal was no longer working. So we need to go back there and set up the base station there and then RTK that area.
The problem of course is that we are supposed to leave tomorrow evening from the Marshall Islands and we are trying to cram as much possible data collection into the remaining time. This tends to mean very long days. Last night we got to meet up with a New Zealand Colleague, Murray Ford. He lived on Majuro for almost 3 years and is a wealth of information, suggestions, and scientific knowledge. We had dinner and drinks last night with him and picked his brain about working here and what to sample.
Our day ended last night after about 12 hours of work and 4 hours of post work (talking, cleaning, ect). I hope you like the pictures! Please post comments :)
LFP: Noise!
Hallo, so yesterday we made the mass exodus from our cozy lovely (if buggy) island, Eneko, back to the main island Majuro. We went from like 2 other people a day to you know a city sized number of people. We got to wake up and move several times our 20 bags of stuff. Then we got to do some field work. Needless to say, it was a very long day.
We actually had a pretty good morning (in terms of productivity). We moved all the equipment over to Majuro successfully (aka nothing broke or got left behind). We set up the RTK system on the roof of the hotel in Maj (very scary roof). We even sat down and ate lunch (nice change from PB&J). Then we rented a car and starting driving with the GPR and RTK going. Here we ran into our first snags. We managed to start GPRing right as all the children in the island were going home for lunch from school. So imagine the small streets suddenly filled with kids of all ages and us trying to drive through it. We've got this weird box towed very slowly behind our car and antennas stuck to our roof. Of course we were swarmed by interested kids. They thought it was a hoot to try to touch the GPR or jump in the car or run in front of us in the middle of the road. Mostly harmless until you are trying to not hurt anyone and get reasonable data.
We finally gave up on part of the island and started driving to the other end. It turns out that Majuro island is made up of like 10 different islands that have been joined together so it goes on and on and on! It took us almost 2 hours to get to the other end of the island. Luckily we stopped for iced coffee and bathrooms at the airport along the way. Laura beach (at the other end of the island from us) is a really pretty and cute village where we had much more success with GPR (by that point, all 33 miles from the base station) our RTK signal was no longer working. So we need to go back there and set up the base station there and then RTK that area.
The problem of course is that we are supposed to leave tomorrow evening from the Marshall Islands and we are trying to cram as much possible data collection into the remaining time. This tends to mean very long days. Last night we got to meet up with a New Zealand Colleague, Murray Ford. He lived on Majuro for almost 3 years and is a wealth of information, suggestions, and scientific knowledge. We had dinner and drinks last night with him and picked his brain about working here and what to sample.
Our day ended last night after about 12 hours of work and 4 hours of post work (talking, cleaning, ect). I hope you like the pictures! Please post comments :)
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| Our storage space (only showing some of the bags) |
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| Where we put the RTK base |
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| RTK Receiver |
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| Making concrete |
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| scary roof with RTK system |
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