What an exciting day I / we had as a team ... last day at the field and there we are ready to take on the world to tackle climate change ... We are the troopers to the green task force. Going back a few days I was knowing no one ... today the feeling is that uncertainity is we guys ever get a chance to meet again ... reminding me of my good old college days.
As usual ... Moth catching between 5- 10 and setting traps from 6-8 ... Wytham and Beanwood ... with the usual trek group ... me , Angie and Rita. The usual chit chat ... valued opinions from Angie and Rita ranging a variety of topics ... pets, dolls, foods, conservation ... I looked so dumb between them :). Rita ... she is far more knowledgeable than any gal of her age.
With yesterday's backlog of 5 miles ... I had to go for a run on the rest day .... took a chance and went around the Village Church and circled the Farmour reservoir .... excellent run ... Thank you Oxford for the memorable 10 miler. Rest of the day was in between cramps ... and one was during the learning session that I let off my laptop down to fix the cramp... haa haa haa.
There were wrap up sessions in the afternoon .... The results were really really good. We had measured 929 trees, al time record , and other measurements around Co2. Terhi was happy with our team to have put some quality work to measure the long term affects of climate change around edges and core areas. Then we had the moth presentation ... more than 4000 moths caught and tagged ... with 2 peak days of 1000 moths. Great work from the first group of our team ... Salute ! Final round of vision and goal analysis and everyone was clear of what they want to do ... Richard finally asked everyone to list their objectives with some very good ideas ... Jean Marc and me had ideas around Micro Credit / MFI. Save paper day to be organised across the group and paper usage measured and monitored before / after. Poor Magda may have to start from scratch ... but if things start rolling in she should meet her objectives. Wishing all the very best ... may we all be successful in what we have tasked upon us.
Dinner was pizza ... followed by the last minute rush to collect all the photos ... Lynsey did a great job in selecting pics instead of the 4.5 Gb taken ... haa haa haa. While she was doing that rest of played frisbee in the hall ... then we took a chance by playing in the grass i the dark with a few torches switched on. I fell on my bum twice coz of the dew ... we still played. With lights switched off and torches lit on our faces we wished Gordon Bday again ... candle on a cake(half onion). This was followed by some scottish song and dance ... gay gordons. As usual slept at 1:30 to wake up for moth capture for the last day ... got some decent data ... locations of the traps this time around were simply breathtaking giving best view of Oxford and bright early morning.
we then had to fill the evaluation forms from earthwatch and the usual last minute senti ... of thank you ... great work. Thank you Richard, Chloe, & Dr.Khalid and all involved in earthwatch to have made this a wonderful experience for all of us in team 16... and to Rita too
We reached the train station ... and said bye ... dasvidaaniyaa ... We have now taken our boats back home ... to set sailing in the rocky waters at home. The knowledge we gathered over the past 2 weeks has given us confidence and expertise in dealing with any difficulties ... but it aint going to be smooth sailing.
With this ends my blog on Oxford ... the next 1/2 weeks are going to be the most challenging and am sure we all end up successful ... Time to sleep but with no thoughts of waking up at 0400 ... :)
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