The past few weeks the Metsähallitus SEAmBOTH-team has been experiencing all kinds of things for the last time. Some of our team members have already finished working and this week was the last field work week for Eveliina, Teemu and me. On Wednesday I did my last wading point and on Thursday I did my last dive. And I just realized that they were both the last field data that I collected for SEAmBOTH, because this is our last field Summer.
The end of Summer is always full of “lasts”. Last drive with Maia-boat, last meal on the field, last drop-video point taken, last time carrying the dive tanks.. It always feels like the end comes too soon, because the end of the field work means the end of Summer.
When the winds get high and the sun starts to set early, it is good to continue working in the office. After August our team will concentrate on putting all the data into Excels, so that our GIS-planners can start making maps and other end products in October. We might still do one field day in September, if the weather allows us to do some wading in one interesting bay north of Oulu. But it might be so that we have just finished collecting the data for SEAmBOTH-project. And I think we did quite well, because for the first time we broke the amount of 1000 wading points collected in one Summer!
This Autumn and Winter we are doing very interesting work with writing the end report for our project, and I am looking forward to that 🙂
Written by Suvi Saarnio, Metsähallitus
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