10 August, 2002

Greetings......

This morning I was able to collect GPR data on the two bore holes that I have been working with. It was striking today how much the holes have closed up over the last week. When they were first bored into the ice, the had a diameter of over six inches. Today, there was only about two inches of open space left (at least as far down the hole as I could see).

After collecting this data, I out to Tim Alessiąs project site. He is a REU student from the University of Wisconsin at Oshkosh. Tim needed to take some slices from downed trees to determine how old they are (how old they were when they died). Tim is attempting to correlate the age of vegetation to the depth of soil over buried ice.

Unfortunately after packing the chain saw two miles up hill through thick brush we werenąt able to get it to run very well. So we decided to pack it back in and call it a day. We plan to use a different saw tomorrow, and will head back out first thing in the morning.

Clouds and a few showers today........

Life Is Good

DT