09/16/26

The past few days haven’t been the most eventful since we finished processing sediment. We have been waiting for the washed sediment to dry in filter paper which took forever since we don’t have an oven to speed up the process. Since most of the samples are sandy, there is a lot of coarse fraction to pack up. I was able to portion out sediment for my own research purposes and now I have a large Ziploc bag (very) full of approximately 80 samples of sediment. 

Big news on the boat: they have put out canned Diet Coke for us now. Usually the cooks stash good snacks/drinks and slowly put them out over time and canned beverages ended up being a hit. As small as it is, it was such a treat to keep the momentum up on the final days of our trip.