Yesterday was spent putting more little pieces in and on the ground. This site is known as "Flakaliden" and is a famous research site (that's what they tell me). Apparently, a lot of high quality work with boreal forest systems, carbon balances, climate change, etc. have been done on this site. They even had "cool" soil "warming" plots to investigate potential climate change shifts. The photo by Dan shows one of those warming plots, with all the associated scientific junk. One wonders how much the instrumentation changes the system... Today was an easy day. We only had 2 plots to finish, about 2 hours of work. Depending on which plots we were on, the soil was rock, or the soil was soil. When it was rocky, it was slow, but not as painful as it probably could have been. Niklaas apparently enjoyed pounding in stakes, and everyone was happy to let him do it. Back in Vindeln we crossed the street and visited the liquor store. Bought 5 different beers based mostly on how neat the can looked. Danish, Finnish, and Swedish brews. Had a little taste-testing event. I think the Finns won. Tomorrow we head to Umea for the day...Bird of the day: Eurasian Tree Sparrow.
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