Rain all night

Our weblog is suffering from technical difficulties due to poor network connections and therefore hasn't been updated for a while. Moreover, the little posts by the students are proof of the fact that they have other, more serious matters on their minds than going to the internet cafe. So, I thought it was my turn to add another post.

There is some very good news, which is worth a post: There has been a lot of rain. Some of it already fell yesterday but most of it came last night when heavy storms passed our area. Our rain gauges recorded between 11 and 29 mm over the past 24 hours. Not bad! Discharge of the streams also increased significantly so there was quite some activity in the streambeds today in order to get discharge measurements for the rating curves. Furthermore, samples could finally be taken to determine the chemical composition of the rainwater. We'll return this year with a very nice dataset with lots of things happening.

During the afternoon we managed to do some EM-34 measurements to establish the geological layering near Tabuaco. The relative humidity must have been almost 100% because we could hardly breathe. Perhaps more thunderstorms are underway.

Besides from all the hard work we are enjoying ourselves still in our spare time. Last Saturday the students organized a barbeque, which went on until 01.00 am or so. We ate a lot of sardines, really good. Sunday we watched the football games, the Netherlands playing against Serbia/Montenegro and Portugal against Angola.


Vincent