Day3/Week2

I wrapped up our geology search today at around lunchtime. I went out with our TA Michelle to confirm the contact locations we had found yesterday. She was very helpful and we were able to confirm that the contact line on the geological map is pretty accurate. After walking the northern contact line, we wrapped around and tried to predict where the finger of the old alluvium was. We took a break to watch some homemade UAV planes fly around, and then preceded east towards the shore. The first thing that we noticed was how there was old alluvium exposed along the ridge right behind our basecamp. Due to dense vegetation and private property, the rest of our investigation was cut short for access limitation reasons. We were however pretty confident that the southern side of the contact follows right between the marsh area and the slope.

Afterwards, I joined up with the UAV and topology groups. I had a lot of fun trying something new. Some of the members left, we ate, and then hiked up to the deep northern slope of the valley. I got experience gathering data on the Trimble GPS as well as flying the quadcopter. It started to get windy and we started having a bit of an issue using the wolrdview2 imagery to locate where our next point needed to me… and where we were. We got a little mixed up but found a pretty cool observation tower. It was amazing to climb to the top and watch the rain and the clouds come in and swirl around in the valley. Knowing that we needed to start there tomorrow, we hiked back to basecamp, packed up and shuttled home.

Now to get the Internet fixed, review the potential questions in the professors’ slides, create an .mxd overlay file for general use, and watch Jurassic park. Seems like a pretty good night.