Lakin Beal
Los Tuxtlas Water Research: REU
Project goals:
Personal goals: How water chemistry works, controls on water chemistry in Los Tuxtlas, personal research experience
Research goals: forest vs. human impact on water in TVF (need access permission), poster presentation, interesting data for NSF proposal, relate to soil work by Amy, water sample analyses, literature review development
To do before spring break:
- seek permission from Bioreserve
- soil/water training
- lit review/background (continuing)
- get soil observations from Amy
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Activities for 5/2 (meet with Kitty):
Is the Young approach doable in the Vaughan chronosequence?
How do we pick sites in the field?
Is the hydrologic development at COTM similar to hot/dry desert (Mohave) or wet/basaltic site (Hawaii)?
Which tools for shallow soils?
- Meet again 5/6, noon: follow-up from meeting with Kitty, GIS layers
Activities for 4/29:
Dry side vs. wet side Hawaii; soil development on comparable slopes
need to check in on wind-blown soils with Kitty
look for named flows on COTM map
Read Ch3 in Vaughan, Young
Activities for 4/22:
read ch. 2 from Vaughan diss.
L: talk w/ field camp re: 2 Jul site selection visit
for future: compile ages and locations from Table 1 from Putirka et al., if possible?
Activities for 4/18:
mt w/ K re: D's collaboration
read Putirka et al.
Activities for 4/8:
Sa: meet with Kitty about COTM sampling redirect
L: send ref list; S&S: get access from list, send out
Activities for 4/1:
Sh: find camera, dang nabbit!
Find pink book from Kitty
read ArVi08
Activities for 3/18:
read Espindola et al. (2009)
check in with Amy, re: missing A horizon, structure decisions
Activities for 3/11:
SG: check on water analyses timing with Kitty, check REU dates, send soil text to LB
LB: collect/scan Amy's sample stuff, transcribe Shannon's water records from field book, soil text from Amy(?)
all: check summer travel dates
Activities for 2/25:
read USGS guidelines for sampling, schedule meeting with Amy
get soil observations from Amy
Activities for 2/14:
Lohse and Dietrich paper (dropbox)
Travel advance forms, price quotes
(Sh: contact approach for Reserve)
Activities for 2/4:
Nelson paper on TVF geochemistry (Sh will send)
(Sh: contact approach for Reserve)
Activities for 1/31:
Develop strong list of prioritized project goals.
Read two papers:
Scan & send Gibbs
Los Tuxtlas water chem paper (SG will send)
Write short summaries of key points from the 2 papers, bring to meeting to discuss.
Activities for 1/24 (until revised):
Pick new meeting day/time
Read 2 "papers"
1) Gold paper from Amy J. or Garrels and Mackenzie (1967)
2) Los Tuxtlas Biological Reserve website: http://www.parkswatch.org/parkprofile.php?l=eng&country=mex&park=ltbr&page=inf
Write short summaries of key points from the 2 "papers," bring to meeting to discuss