Electromagnetic Geophysics Lab at Georgia Institute of Technology
March 18th would be our last deployment of the field campaign! This would be carried out by Samer, Marino, Alexa, and Kennet who would first head to recover on the gulf island of Chira. Meanwhile, Olivier, Anna, and Gabriel would go out and recover a site . Our day was relatively easy but with a lot …
March 17th was an ambitious day for everyone: we planned to recover three and deploy three stations. This was planned to be the last full strenuous day for us, after which we would be doing mostly recoveries, aside from one deployment, until the 19th. We knew we could power through, especially with the promise of …
March 16th brought with it the excitement of deployment on yet another island! We would be heading to Chira, the largest island in the Gulf of Nicoya! This was again done by the early risers of Kennet, Oliver, and me. The other team would be going off to recover the station we had deployed near …
On March 14th we would be redeploying a station. This was because the former station in that region yielded data that was much too noisy to use. While this was a little annoying, it is also the only site we have had to do this for thus far, which is a really encouraging sign. Given …
March 12th was a laid-back day for both teams. Oliver, Kennet, and I went to do a quick morning installation while the other team would focus on scouting some locations for the more difficult areas in the southern portion of the peninsula. We installed the receiver in a recently tilled field, meaning the holes practically …
On March 10th Oliver, Alexa, and I deployed a site near Cerro Frío that we had scouted a few days prior. We arrived at the landowner’s house to find she had recently sold the property we were originally interested in, thus began our side quest. The landowner had sold the plot of land to some …
March 8th brought with it plans to move base camp yet again. This time we would be moving a three-hour drive south from Sámara to Hotel Villa Grace in Cóbano, located near the southern tip of the Nicoya Peninsula. We planned to recover one site along the way, but upon arrival, we found that it …
March 6th was the first solo mission for me, Oliver, and Luis, and in typical fashion, things didn’t go as planned for us. We spent hours scouting for an ideal site to deploy an instrument, but apparently in the wrong area all along. A bright side to this is that we saw this crazy looking …
The next two days we planned were relatively mild, mainly due to Darcy abandoning us on March 6th. The plan for March 4th was to knock everything out in the morning so that we could have the time after lunch to prepare for the beach grill dinner which doubled as Darcy’s sendoff party. We split …
March 2nd was a big day, this was when our two new team members, Oliver Azevedo, and Alexa Fernández, were set to fly into the Liberia airport. Oliver Azevedo is a first-year Ph.D. student at Georgia Tech in the EGL group and Alexa Fernández is a Costa Rican native currently working on her Master’s degree at …