Dana Warren, the PI for the project, made it to HJA to help out with some of our work on Thursday. We made it out to the farthest sites to do some forest surveys, as well as measuring out a couple reaches in two streams and marking them (putting a flag every 10 meters), and laying out tiles. The tiles are going to sit in the streams for 6 weeks to grow algae, which will show the amount of primary production that takes place at those locations. The forest surveys consist of creating a 15x15 meter plot and measuring the DBH, or Diameter Breast Height, meaning the diameter of the tree at breast height, or roughly 1.3 meters up on the trunk. This also includes identifying all the trees. Fairly easy, but a long day, and there were a lot of changes in marking out the reaches with Dana around, which resulted in measuring it out, then realizing we wanted to do something else instead, and having to remeasure. Honestly, I don't remember anything else from this day; I was pretty tired. However, we got Friday off for the 4th, so it was nice to come back to HJA and relax, knowing I didn't have to wake up early to work.
Stay fancy.
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