So, I got moved to this new project, along with 8 other of the “awesome core group of samplers” that’s coming from my coordinator. We’re on a heavily oiled beach collecting samples of oil and sediment. They are doing a research project to clean up the spill and we’re doing pre- and post- clean up collection. But since we need to move fast there are nine of us, and its the crew I’ve been working in conjunction with, at different locations for three weeks. They bring out, like 15 boats, ones a bathroom boat, one’s a food boat, two are water boats, ones a medic boat, then the rest of them are carrying supplies for the teams. Its long hours but its really fun work.

Aside from the driving. Really, two hours one way, in the same state? How does that happen? Anyway, we’re doing this mission again tomorrow, we have some spots to sample before htey clean, and then I either go back to the USGS work or get to be on the team that is doing post-clean up sampling… I kind of don’t really care which team I’m on as long as I have fun partners. Not all of them are.