Friday, June 13, 2014

Ways To Have Fun With A Orange.........Not.


On the first day at FGCU we were divided into three small groups of two to deploy in canoes. Each group was sent to different locations: first group went to the head of the imperial river, second group went to the mouth, and last group went to fish trap bay. The goal of each group was to measure the current speed at a variety of points along the estuary by dropping an orange in water. This is about as fun as it sounds my partner Danielle and I had to make up songs to stay entertained. We originally only had to do four trials each ten minutes long however we decided to do nine trials because during two trials boats hit our orange and disrupted our sample. Basically We had to drop an orange and let the current take it for ten minutes recording the starting and ending GPS coordinates in each trial. These coordinates would be used with Google earth to calculate the distances. While gathering data we were visited by a manatee, which I told Danielle she would get to see, at least once so glad it happened.

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