Electromagnetic Geophysics Lab at Georgia Institute of Technology
There seems to be a running trend that when we split up, disaster strikes one of the teams. (See my previous entries where each respective team got lost on two separate days) Our splitting up today turned out to be no different, except this time, both teams encountered issues regarding the equipment. The team of …
On February 28, our seventh day of fieldwork, we planned to recover one receiver and deploy two, one of which was almost on the beach. A beach excursion was sure to ensue. Our first site of the day was scouted but we had not yet obtained permission from the landowner to deploy. Seeing that we …
After a day of working together, we decided to try splitting up again for our fifth day of the campaign (February 26). We used the same groups. These groups are mainly dictated by who can and who can’t speak Spanish: Luis being fluent in both, Darcy being semi-conversational in Spanish and Gabriel being only fluent …
On our fourth day of fieldwork (February 25), we had ourselves a mouthful of a plan. We would drive a two or three-hour total loop up to the northwest coast stopping around every 30 minutes to either deploy or recover a site. We hit the ground running with a deployment in a pasture that looked …
On our third day of fieldwork (February 24, 2023), we planned to install one site and pick up our first deployment. Our installment of the day was in a sugar cane field owned by a large company called CATSA. The farm was a major industrial operation and after a security check, we were guided to …
Hey guys, welcome back! This time I’m back with a bit of a more behind-the-scenes science-oriented blog post, but bear with me through it cause it’s actually super exciting. This will help you gain an understanding of what it is that we are recording with our receivers. Even if you just skim this article (which …
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Samer and I arrived in San José, Costa Rica on February 19th. After picking up our 11 comically large and heavy cases of geophysical equipment (pictured below) from the airport, we headed to grab the rental car. The first day of our stay was spent sorting out logistics while staying at the most gorgeous hotel, …
Hola! Welcome to the first installation of the Nicoya-MT blog, posted by me, Anna Redanz everyone’s favorite research assistant in the Electromagnetic Geophysics Lab (EGL) lab at Georgia Tech (there is only one, so I win by de-fault). This first post will serve as an introduction to the objectives of the project that will be …