Uzon, Day Four
It was very cold, wet and windy this morning, and I had a rough time getting started. A double shot of espresso helped, but it took a brisk hike to Burlyaschy to collect my first samples of the expedition to actually wake up.
Collecting sediment samples from the outflow of Burlyaschy (Boiling Spring). This is my first field sample since starting grad school. Neat!
Frank and I thought it might be interesting to try to sample from the center of the spring near the heat source, so we tied a 50ml tube and a rock to a rope and dragged it across the bottom of the pool a few times. It didn't work, unfortunately, so we're going to try using a long tube and a hand pump tomorrow.
Our improvised sampling gadget. It didn't work unfortunately. The bottom of Burlyaschy evidently doesn't have any sediment.
Our efforts were interrupted by a bear, a real one this time, that wandered out from behind a hummock about fifty feet away. We dropped what we were doing and circled to the bank of Burlyaschy opposite the bear. In principle, we could sidle in one direction or the other to keep the spring between us and the bear. A bear can easily outrun a human in a straight line, but on a turn, particularly in boiling mud, we have a better chance. If it tried to cross the pool, we would quickly end up with a few thousand gallons of bear-and-microbe soup.
A bear interrupted our work at Burlyaschy.
Happily, the bear showed little interest in us, and wandered off. It doesn't make for great photography, but I've decided that the preferred view of a bear is the posterior as it walks away.
Fortunately, he showed very little interest in us.
We returned to the station without incident and had some lunch. Alex and Anna went off to collect some samples for their colleagues in Moscow, while Frank and Bo packed up his computer, a huge APC power supply, and his scanning voltometry apparatus lumbered off to Red White and Green. Right now, Sarah and I are upstairs with the Russian expedition to use the lab bench for DNA extractions.
Sarah working on DNA extractions.
Later on, the weather cleared up to reveal an extrodinary afternoon. I was persuaded to go to so-called Bath Pool with the Russians. I'm not sure if I am any cleaner as a result, but the experience was... interesting.
Anna and Alex returning from Central Thermal Field.
1. Uzon, Day Seven
2. Uzon, Day Six
3. Uzon, Day Five
4. Uzon, Day Four
5. Uzon, Day Three
6. Uzon, Day Two
7. Uzon, Day One
8. Updates, continuing
9. Uzon, Day Zero
10. Back from Uzon
11. Last minute preparations
12. Uzon field season team, 2010
13. Live from Petropavlovsk
14. Kamchatka for those who've never played Risk
15. Science, the practice of
16. I'm going to Kamchatka!
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