Last minute change to the plans for the daily write up as I seem to have delayed the daily blog and I have forgot most of what we have been doing all week .... Its better I sum up the whole week rather than taking ages to write every day and make this boring.
The whole week was early morning wake up for the moths team whereas the trees team had a good night's sleep but still leaving early aaaaaaattttttttt 8 is not good :) Our task was to water the plots , measuring CO2 (sink / source calculation), soil temperature, soil moisture content, tag trees, measure plots, identify species of the tree, measure diameter at 1.3 metre hieght, inclination, Single / multistem, dendrometer reading (to meaure the growth of the tree). There were wood / leaf specimen placed in bags to measure the decay process. Watering concept was to actually double the amount of average rainfall between alternate plots and then measure the sink / source calculation of the trees in plot. We had around 10 plots to do the watering and in total around 25 plots to do other calculations. I am now totally on one of the claculations that we had done on that day. Forgot to tell ... we passed by an organic farm which had happy pigs and baby piglets ... I always felt they are very dirty animals and for a change I found them very cute. We had to dip our shoes through a disinfectant solution so that we dont carry germs in :).
Thats enough about trees ... so I am now jumping directly to the leaning session which had Dr Khalid doing a presentation on Climate change. All week lunch was the usual sandwich with chicken slices. I was feeling sleepy for the lectures but Dr. Khalid kept the session interactive giving me no chance to get a quick nap. The room does not have any back benches to even think of hiding in the back. The sessions were intended to capture the qualities of diferent persons ways to impress them and tackle some hard people who are generally difficult to convince, perception of climate change, and ways to handle climate change, socio economic impact etc..,
After the learning session moths team went to set the traps and we (forgot to tell my team was me , Angie, Lynsey, Sergey & Atiya ) were planning to cook food for everyone. I used to go for my evebing run ... 3 , 5 , rest, 3, 4. We decided to make some chicken dish and it finally ended up as roast chicken .... the knife was crap and it was hardwork cutting smaller pieces of chicken. The vegetable options cooked by Lynsey was also very good. Thursday I cooked chicken / quorn desi curry and I hope everyone liked it. On my own scale I would rate this 5/10 ... the tomotoes spoiled the taste and with no green chilly you miss on a very important flavour for chicken curry. I can also crib there was no jeera / cumin but overall its ok. I liked the veg version a lot. There were fajitas on one day and sergey cooked some armenian steaks on the barbeque and lynsey tried her hand at aubergines and veg kebabs.
And saturday we took a breather with 3 hours of tree stuff ... I forgot the moth guys had a horrid day I think on tuesday where they trapped record number of moths because of the night being very hot. coming back to saturday we had a session by Dr. khalid on India RCC and it was very interestng to know the Indian RCC has literally five star treatment to the champions there. I would love to go there one da just for the experince of the deep jungles in western ghats. Letz ....c
After that we went to cotswold nature park which had all different animals and plant species .... Saw a pengiun and red panda for the first time in my life. Missed the train by 3 mins ... Ice cream was good but aint that great matching my expectations. The tropical forest section was really really good and I loved the walled garden section too.
Sunday will be on another post ... watch out coz that has all the fun
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