...sorry about the poor word play, it had to be done.
Anyway we have a new recruit joining us! For a week Fabian will be helping us out with the core measurements from the soil harvest. This is much appreciated as Jade and Amy are now frequently disappearing to learn their individual BES specific subjects and the extra help is very useful.
Amy is now assisting Jenny with the Microbial biomass of the soil, which is taking a veeeery long time as something has gone a bit amiss with their method; involving some technical difficulties and the inability to understand strange Swedish machine manuals. But they are soldiering on and making some progress.
Jade has really quickly picked up the technique of stomatal imprinting and doing well. Hopefully Amy and Jade will be able to explain a little more about the techniques they’ve learnt here on the blog soon.
Lyanne is now acting as the production team as she has her trusty camera. So soon we'll have some videos to show of us working away in the labs, in the plots, the rough legged buzzard chicks (that are now massive) and other features of our time here.
Sarah is being the glue that holds everything together by making sure that we are keeping up the standards and not mixing samples and generally making sure that we're not doing anything stupid such as leaving samples lying around.
Matt has now joined us in the lab too, having completed the photosynthesis side of things. He has now taken the baton from Jade and measuring leaf area of each individual tiny, miniscule leaf of the Empectrum. They must both have nerves of steal - it's extremely tricky.
I have been carrying out root, litter and moss sorting duties mainly, which isn't as bad as it sounds as long as the core sample doesn't have too much of any component.
Apart from that there has been much music, singing and dancing to try and keep us all sane after picking out so very many small roots out of soil all day.
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