Day 15

Today was set aside to spend the day working on finishing up our projects. We started out with a meeting on writing abstracts, analyzing data, and creating our presentations. My group went up to town first thing in the morning to get one last sample near the airport. As we were sitting outside with our probes, a group of tourists came out of the airport and one took a picture of us. It was a little creepy. We then stopped by the gift shop and grocery store before heading back to the school. We finished testing all our water samples and logging our data in the computer. Then Emil and I set out to see if we could set up something to measure the amount of carbon dioxide in the water. After scavenging around the school and running next door to buy some duct tape, we ended up creating a device where we could boil the water, capture the steam, and then measure the change in carbon dioxide concentration using the carbon dioxide probe. The design worked pretty well until the carbon dioxide probe started freaking out because of the steam. We scratched the experiment after that but are still pretty proud of our design. We spent the rest of the day working on analyzing data and starting to work on our presentation. It was really nice outside today too. Sadly the day we were stuck inside working was way nicer than the majority of the days we were working out in the field. Some of us took a break, however, to go outside and take a break near the river. We even took a nap on the rocks. You can check out my research group’s page on the PolarTrec website where we are posting more about our work. (http://www.polartrec.com/expeditions/greenland-education-tour-2011)

            Later that night we had Picture Night where we all shared some of our favorite pictures from the trip. It was fun getting to look back. I can’t believe we’ve done so much!

Our attempt at a dissolved carbon dioxide monitor

Data Day!