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Creepy crawlies… and MICE!

The last few days have been marked by a smooth operation of moving, placing, and muddy sticking… but also by red ants, spiders, worms, beetles, and various other creepy crawlies that have emerged from the vegetation pallets. A species rich … Continue reading

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We have reached half way!!

The team are now ‘well oiled’. Pallets are being inspected as they are teased apart from the ‘bulk’ of pallets sitting outside in the ‘storage area’, then labelled and moved sequentially into the flume, where they are carefully pushed onto … Continue reading

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83 out of 200 and counting…

After a slow start to the week (6 blocks moved on day 1…), the team managed to move more than 25 on each of the last two days, so everyone hopes we can go into the weekend with half of all the blocks … Continue reading

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Just as we get into a routine, battery failure causes delay…

… but at the end of the second day of vegetation moving, three flow measurement devices and 26 pallets are installed… thanks to great team work and the arrival of James from Cambridge and Detlef from Hamburg.

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First vegetation block makes it into the flume!!!

It works! We have managed to get the first block of vegetation placed safely and securely, with very little sediment crumbling away from the sides and with he side of the block securely next to the flume wall, thanks to … Continue reading

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The plants are on the move…

Preparations have been underway for starting the jigsaw puzzling of the salt-marsh vegetation onto the sand base constructed in the wave flume. Before the plants can be moved into the flume, their exact position within the flume had to be … Continue reading

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More metal and cables…

The mobile instrument platform is almost ready – flow velocity and water pressure fluctuations will be recorded at a range of heights above the vegetation canopy to see how far the influence of the vegetation extends into the flow field … Continue reading

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A day for dirt and data prep…

Another busy day on Monday, with completion of the collection of our soil samples from the plant boxes. Not an easy task (as it involves balancing on the wooden sides of the pallets that contain our marsh sections and that … Continue reading

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A day for cleaning, weaving, and disentangling…

Experimental work requires people with a broad range of skills. Today we were meeting the intellectual challenges of window cleaning and weaving. Here some pics of men at work. First, the mechanism for holding and dragging a net through to … Continue reading

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Decision Day and Drag Discussion…

Another interesting couple of days. Yesterday was marked by the laying of the geotextile onto the sand base, on top of which the marsh blocks will be placed. And then there was the refinement of the construction of our sediment … Continue reading

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