08 octobre 2005
last minutes in the office
That's it...fieldowrk over, project on the verge of being finished and I am soon to leave for real and for good. I have a knot in my throat and I can feel tears building up...I never realised I would be so devastated of leaving them all and the job too...it has been an experience of a lifetime where I have been able to rebuild my self-confidence, my data skills and my social skills too.
Thank you to Joss, Stef, Ole, Robert and KWF and keep up the good work for a healthy watershed:)
23 septembre 2005
Office
Been up sitting in front of a computer for the past 2 weeks. My brain is feeling like mashed peas as I keep reading html coding and at last I have been given a way out of my "website" nightmare. Will start using the free trial version of dreamweaver. Thankgodness.... I am in the process of creating photo albums for every single culvert we have listed on our GIS map, and they will all be available online. So you click on a point in the Arcview software and you get access to a webpage with the pics related to that specific point... Really neat, seems simple enough but it hasn't been!!!!
The good side of this past 2 weeks has been the possibility of doing something new. Not making maps, or entering data or generally playing around with GIS but getting online and reading lots about webpages design...and la creme de la creme is that I am back in the field tomorrow, under rain and wind for a day fish sampling around Cooper Landing and I am SOOO excited about it. Will bring waterproof camera, cross streams in waders, observe fry... YIPII...
When it comes down to my week-end there is a documentary festival in Homer from friday til thursday and this is where I am heading. Some of you might remember the film: "la marche de l'empereur", well it is showing here and as noone (am not bitter:) when I was back in Paris was willing to come with me, I'll go here on my own enjoy the gorgeous sceneries of arctic life and generally sit allday inside a dark room where I can daydream about nature.
29 juillet 2005
Hope
Hope est un village au sud de anchorage. Plus simple d'ecrire en anglais...We drove there, the 3 interns and me, to assess if any anadromous culverts where there. We had a map from the borough and had to checked those specific point that they considered possible .
Well, have no idea where their map came from but one of the stream was completely off track and not there, instead we found a new stream and stagnant ponds. It was nice to hang out with the interns as they are all leaving withing the next 2 weeks.I saw my first black bear. It was just unbelievable though he stood on the other bank and it was only a pupp, at the same time fisherman chatted with us and I learned how to filet a fish (J to espen)
We surveyed,
crawled in bushes,
tramped in mud
and at last had a nice meal at the bar: The seaview café.
The flat landscape gives place to surrounding mountains and the sun arose at the end of our day around 16. I am eager to go hiking there soon though I''ll require 4 hours drive from soldotna. Gloups...
Hope is small but giving a wonderful sight on mudflats and anchorage. At high tide, belugas and seald are supposedly hanging out on the other side of the bay. White water rafting is common in the area and I might try it soon.
The return trip was quite and most of us slept. Luckily not krista who was driving.... Proof...
