November 20th - December 10th

Just taking a break from researching the annotated bibliography assignment to type up a blog. Went hiking up to humes ranch yesterday once the road had re-opened, there was alot of storm damage to the trail in the form of blown over or washed out trees. The river was quite exciting to watch thundering through goblins gate. Snow training will be in a few weeks, then after that we should be doing some field work. Thats all i know for now!

-Gus

november 5 - november 19

It has started to snow in the mountains so we should be going out in the field soon. Last week I reviewed the two drafts written about projects on the elwha river, they both seemed pretty good. Hopefully it will continue to snow in the mountains to give us something to measure, and also a nice base for snow sports all winter long.

-Gus

october 22 - november 5

Still not much has happened yet. Last monday we watched a lab safety video that hopefully explained to us how to use caution and proper safety practices to stay safe in the lab. I continued to work on my research paper. Jumped off the 101 bridge into the elwha river last weekend, so i can firmly report that the river temperature is quite cold. Hope it snows a lot soon so we can start doing field work. Also i hope that my laptop starts connecting to the internet better in the PUB, the connection is usually shakey and dissconnects alot, making it hard for me to submit a blog in the first place! thats all for now

-Gus

october 9th - october 22nd

After two more weeks, a lot has still not happened. I began to work on my annotated bibliography assignment figuring that it would be better to get it done now then rush and get it done at the beginning of December. Brian had mentioned that he wanted the wildlife crew to exchange traps with a park biologist last Thursday, but i was all i ever herd about that, so i assume it will still need to get done sometime soon. I did take a quick day hike up to Humes Ranch a few miles up from Whiskey bend, the river was a bit high from all the rain but still mostly blue green color, not yet having reached its winter color of a constant sludge brown. Thats all for now!

-Gus

september 24 - october 8

The first two weeks of REU have been more or less un-eventfull. The first week we thoughtfully listened to presentations from the leaders of the four different fields. Over the weekend i only breifly thought about what field I wanted to join, for out of fisheries, wildlife, hydrology, and microbiology, hydrology stood out. On monday we signed up for our fields, I was placed both in hydrology and biology. We then spent the rest of the day watching a video on the history of the elwha river and the conflicts involved. Hopefully within the next two weeks we will be able to go out in the field!?

-Gus