Finally with a total of 78 or so hours work; the first trial core is finished. Phew! This means that we have now been able to get started with the smaller cores, which will be used for the actual soil harvest project on the UV treated and control plots. The aim of this is to see if the UV treatment has any affect on the community composition and if so how it is affected.
The first of these cores was processed within 3 hours so this method is proving to be much more efficient already. We are still working out a system of separating the various components out so that everyone is involved and capable of carrying out any tasks assigned to them (such as sorting moss into species, plant species, etc).
In addition, BES funding stipulates that as a part of the grant we must each be trained in a specialist topic too. So once all of the 36 soil cores have been taken for the harvest we will be movig on to our individual specialist training. With any luck we'll be finding out what these subjects will be very soon.
And good news: forecast for the weekend is sun!
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