Continued field preparations

I know you are waiting for this: The helium arrived today. We will start Wednesday the 26th with lab PSD extractions and GC analysis thereof.

Field preparations continue, this time with paperwork and equipment. The benchsheets are modeled off OSU's with project specific modifications. Cheikh is preparing the necessary personnel paperwork and organizing the equipment (rope, cages, etc.). I recommended building an equipment checklist for future trips, but we will determine what exactly might be needed outside the usual after this one.

Pont Gendarme, the field site, is ~200 km away and will take 4 - 5 hours to get there. Once we arrive on Monday we will choose the specific sites, then head to Saint Louis for the night. In the morning, we will deploy the PSDs and head back to Locustox. Since each site will get four cages, everyone should have ample opportunity to load and deploy PSDs.