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Tom_Crumrine
post Jun 25 2005, 04:13 AM
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Bugs arrive in force
24 June 2005

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As you can see here there were quite a bit of mosquitoes on my back. Today they came out in force as the wind died down and the temperature rose. This was the first day that we had to wear our bug nets the whole day. Not that fun. But we were lucky to have the bug jackets or we would have been really bad off.

A small celebration is necessary because today we finished weeding all of the plots. That means that all of the things that need to be pulled out of the plots have been pulled out. Yay!

Now, on to the counting of flowers and many other things. Today Peter instructed us on how to count flowers. It seems like we will be counting about 6 species of flowers this summer. Peter told us that the flower counts have really shown an indication of what is going on in the plots. There is really an effect of one species on the flowering of another. I'll get more specifics on this for later.

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This is a picture of Peter showing us what to count and what not to count. Below you can see the grid that we have divided the plot with--this makes it easier to count sections.

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As you can see, this picture shows the size of what we were dealing with today--this plant is called Rubus. We counted how many leaves there were and we counted how many flowers there were. This gives the percentage of flowering.

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Here Joe and I are counting flowers and leaves. A typical 1/2 plot would have 30 flowers and 150 leaves but some had over 100 flowers and as many as 700 leaves--that's a lot of counting.

So that's all for today--we are on to counting flowers. There is a lot of data that needs to be collecdted from all of these plots. I think they will work on collecting data most of the summer. I was actually told that some data from 2 years ago is still being statistically analyzed.

Tomorrow I'm headed to Deadhorse/Prudhoe Bay. If all goes well I will get a tour of the oil fields and get to see the Arctic Ocean. We shall see.
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