Re: Crystalling

Robert J Abbot (rabbot@juno.com)
Thu, 02 Oct 1997 19:38:07 EDT


>Ben, you've hit on a perfect private boater professional science
>project.
>With very little training, a crew could scout ancestral beaches and
>take
>0.1-gram samples, logging in their locations. Samples could be
>transported
>and analyzed off-site. The person with the burning need to know this
>information would finance the analysis but the sample collection would
>be
>free.
>
>I can see reluctance on the part of NPS to have hordes of TEVA-clad
>youngsters scrambling over the cryptogamic soils in search of sand,
>but they
>can be made to realize that private boaters have a sensitivity for the
>canyon as a Cathedral that sedimentologists on a field trip would not.
>
>If anybody in this server is from NPS and knows about the planning of
>science trips, could you inform the other users of the canyon about
>future
>plans? We can help you and we can shorten the wait list a bit in the
>process.
>
>Dave Yeamans
>

Dave @ first I thought this was a joke but I do believe It has some
merrit. I for one would be willing to work for a trip. NPS personel
take note!
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