Taking gear off of the boat at the end of the trip.
On Tuesday May 14 we visited the Roanoke River to collect some data with Anna for her dissertation. Anna is interested in better understanding the connectivity between the river channel and floodplain in terms of exchanging particles. We have three monitoring stations set up along the floodplain with water-level loggers and marker beds. We were only on the water for about 3 hours collecting cores through the marker beds and reading out the sensors. On the way home we purchased 24 30-foot aluminum tubes for vibracoring later in the summer (maybe on Monday if the weather holds) so stay tuned.
Anna taking a core and examining how much sediment is above the feldspar layer.
The water level logger deployed on the floodplain.
