This morning the sun was shining through our window and I was excited for the nice weather. When we got out in the open, we found out that you could parasail without a boat in this wind. Right now I can hear it gusting around outside.
The section drawing wasn't too terrible in the wind. I finished that up by the first tea break, but after that I was assigned to clean a large area of rubble for a photograph. That's difficult in the first place, but with the wind blowing gusts of dust into your eyes, out of the bucket, and all over the stones, it's really awful. Cleaning has officially become my least favorite job... but I can't complain too much. I found a nice piece of flint while I was cleaning. It wa sitting right on top, so I bagged and tagged it. Usually in cleaning if there is a small find, you leave it in until it can be excavated, but this was too small and loose to leave.
We got the cleaning done, but it wasn't fun, and my eyes were tearing dirt for the next... well, they're still tearing dirt.
After lunch my Willamette group got to learn to do Geophysical Survey. I'm still a little fuzzyon how this specific technique works. Hopefully I will learn more about it tomorrow.
To perform the survey, we charted out a grid on a clear field of 20x40m, and used a large, but apparently fairly simple machine to conduct electricity through the ground and back to the machine. It then maps what and how effectively the stuff under the ground conducts electricity. This is how they figure out what might be down there. I know this is all so scientific that it's difficult to understand. Hopefully I'll be able to describe this process better tomorrow after I've seen the results and had them explained without howling wind obscuring all noise.
We might not be able to work tomorrow though, as the forecast says Thunderstorms with 98% chance for precipitation. I gues we'll see. :)
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