Day 15: Hydro Tour

Morning consisted of writing down a quick thought of what my research question was leaning towards. I left on the earlier bus to the field because I was hoping to scout some potential flat surfaces to use GPR to solve the water channel mystery. I won’t go into detail now about what my question will be since I’m not sure if it’ll be feasible in the amount of time we have left. Essentially I want to figure out why some water channels seem to disappear and reappear.

The first half of the day I spent with the hydrology group since they were giving a recap tour to Dr. Becker and Dr. Wechsler. It helped me a lot because it gave me a chance to see where a lot of the major channels and water phenomenon are located. We also got to hike up a trail to the top of the south western part of the valley, the view was beautiful! And you could really see everything the valley encompasses from a bird’s eye view. The second half of the day I tagged along with the vegetation group, since they were going to be assisted by a botanist.

Since I was covered in mud from our hike I couldn’t wait to come back to the barn and shower! Dinner was great and a few of us went on a walk afterwards.