{"id":187,"date":"2013-01-10T10:49:02","date_gmt":"2013-01-10T15:49:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ceat\/?page_id=187"},"modified":"2013-01-10T11:39:22","modified_gmt":"2013-01-10T16:39:22","slug":"bonding","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ceat\/blog-roll\/bonding\/","title":{"rendered":"Bonding with The Beast"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Lift\"

Using the crane to deploy “The Beast”.<\/p><\/div>\n

On a grey and dreary Thursday, the class set out in our rented, eco-friendly SUVs to\u00a0head off to Great Pond to collect deep sediment core and water column samples.\u00a0We would later use the sediment cores to understand how nutrients move from the\u00a0sediment to the water, where algae can use them. It took lots of bodies to load the\u00a0corer or \u201cthe beast\u201d as we named the contraption cleverly built by the Colby physics\u00a0department. Not only was the loading of the corer onto the boat a Herculean task in\u00a0itself, the lowering of the corer from the boat into the water took an incredible amount\u00a0of time, energy, and bodies to handle the crane attached to the corer.\u00a0This process\u00a0was deceivingly simple because it was far too wide for the boat door, the corer had\u00a0to be raised and then carefully lowered into the water. The entire process of sending\u00a0the corer down through the water took eleven minutes in addition to the three to four\u00a0minutes it took to place the stubborn cap on the core sample.<\/p>\n

\"Corer\"

A successful core sample.<\/p><\/div>\n

By the time we were\u00a0finished coring, it was dark, damp, cold, and way past our 5:00pm disbandment. I,\u00a0however, had an incredibly rewarding time staying out on the water, working side by\u00a0side with people who were equally invested and weary as I was. There\u2019s something\u00a0strange about bonding during moments of frustration, exhaustion, and pain\u2026<\/p>\n

——–<\/p>\n

Nicolette Kim<\/p>\n

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