Costa Rica here I come

Greetings veryimportantresearch nation,

Since you last heard from me I've been on the double whammy data colletion schedule. I do my well sampling for the lower Dungeness shallow aquifer recharge project on mondays, and on tuesdays Dwight, Cris, and I go snow sampling in the upper Dungeness watershed. It's kinda nice to get the the mixture of warm sunny weather on mondays and cold snowy weather on tuesdays. It's also interesting to observe the changes in ground water in the lower Dungeness one day and then observe the changes in snowpack in the upper Dungeness the next. Their period of overlap should probably end in a month or so, as the mid elevation snowpack recedes.

Anyhow, I just learned that in a little over a couple months, I'll be going to Costa Rica to participate in soil microbial research. I keep thinking that I must be dreaming and that they must have gotten the wrong guy mistaking me for someone else. Not just because the college is paying for me to go, but because they're paying me to go as well. I still can't believe it. It sounds like I'll get to take a tour of the La Selva research station in the Meso-American biological corridor for ten days, getting to learn all about the programs and projects they have going on there. After that, I'll spend three weeks at an ecovillage south of the Nicaraguan border doing soil microbe lab work. There'll be seven REU students going in all so there is also the chance for some serious college field trip partying, but only after the work is done of course :>