Monday, 2 July 2012

Carolina and the mess, photo: University of Eastern FinlandFollowing Sauna on Friday, the peak moment of Saturday was the arrival of our cook, Zhenja, who will feed us for the following month.

After preparations of the field work on Saturday, our group headed to our field site early Sunday morning. The first half of the seven km walking distance from Seida village to the field site is a forest road, followed by open Tundra. In the field we started cleaning our cosy green field cabin and made some improvements such building shelves there, in order to make it comfortable for the coming months and to create a functional working environment for everybody. In the evening, the male half of our group took up the responsibility of walking back to Seida to meet the cargo train. There, they loaded the goods such as food and timber for field constructions to a special transport vehicle and took it to our field site. The sun was already rising (3 a.m.) when this task was accomplished and we all went to bed tired but satisfied.

Weather station, photo: University of Eastern FinlandToday, Monday, was the first day we spent at our new field site, which is 1.6 kilometres from our field cabin, which we prepared for the coming measurements. This 
included doing some installations, like building up a meteorological station. During this field work (and in fact already during the past few days), the newcomers in the field got acquainted with the millions of local blood sucking little monsters, which in Russian is "Komary").

For tomorrow we promise you a nice picture of our newly built weather station at our field site along with a picture of our group!

 

 

 

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