What a week of progress! My mentor has been out for the week, so I have essentially been left running the fire simulator and rainfall simulator. We took my own truck (cool) to get soil samples in the field. We were also lucky enough to be joined by Ben Livneh who offered some of his perspective on what we were doing. I found this to be helpful, since he encouraged us to think differently about aspects of the fire simulator.
In addition, CSU had a program going on in the same field area – so they came over and asked us, “What the heck ya’ll doin?” So we gave mini elevator speeches in regards to our research.
I’ve been pretty busy getting data – and trying to figure out how to apply that to my part of the project. So here are some photos of lab samples, the rainfall simulator, and our field day.
