Day 5: Data analysis begins, with some photos

Much of today and yesterday were spent on coding for data analysis.  If we can analyze the data correctly, we now have enough information to make some preliminary conclusions about the resistivity of the material below the Roseau Valley.  So we split up the work of performing inversions and analysis, and are now contributing pictures and text files and spreadsheets to a shared group folder at a frightening rate. We work in the morning before going to the field, at night after dinner, and at whatever other times we can manage in between.  Hopefully we'll have an interesting result.  

In the afternoon, we had enough time to run two more soundings in the field.  They're going faster now that we have established a team routine.  Guided by our preliminary results from last week, we chose two new locations to probe and conducted soundings there.  The activities in the field are much the same as in previous days, so today I decided to show a few more pictures of our group at work.  

Taking a break. We often have more people than we need during a sounding, so we rotate taking breaks to make sure each person gets enough rest from working in the sun. 

Pounding an electrode into the ground before a measurement. 

Recording a measurement back at the current source, our home base during soundings.