So, I was hoping to provide updates on what it is that I’m doing. Right now, I’m waiting.
OK, that’s being a bit too blithe about things. I actually have plenty to do: determining baseline the oceanography of the area, re-picking my samples to stay up on my forams, and (especially) reading and re-reading various important papers about ENSO dynamics. There’s also the reading and learning about the statistical methods and data reduction, with a side of matlab and GRaDS programming. But right now, you know, I’m just waiting for data. </snark>
The first set of data coming in is 14C data from NOSAMS. Samples went out in January, and so results should be coming in any day now. With luck, the results will make stratigraphic sense.
The real fun begins later this month. I believe that we’re going to get samples at Woods Hole – hello lobster rolls! That will likely be my spring break trip this year.
That’s when I’ll earn my scientist stripes. I will need to process the samples, and there could be up to 75 of them! At 4 or 5 samples a day in the lab means that we’re looking at … quick math, carry the two – 15-20 lab days, working at full speed. I know what I’m doing this summer…
