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For a good couple years I got to walk along beaches and take water samples of every culvert, pipe, and natural drainage I came across within specific zones. There were some logs and sticks to climb over, but also deer, elk, eagle, seals, and orca. Also birds if I knew or cared about birds.
It really felt like a nice blend of all of these, quite frankly, and had it not been grant work I’d have kept on doing it most likely.
Kayaking down the big creek here and found a nerd on the side of the creek, stomping around in the muck. He was so out of place, and how the hell he got there I’ll never know, but we stopped and asked what he was doing. Collecting turtle data! My man! We owe much to people like you.
post10?
Nope! Had to look that up. The post10 person appears to do work associated more with public works. Similar though. I was monitoring water quality for fisheries and aquaculture. Public health vs public works.
In case you’re interested, I believe post10 is primarily in property management now, which gives them the financial freedom and free time to do all the stuff they do in their videos.
The YouTube channel started (at least when I came upon it) with them recreationally clearing beaver dams out from culverts (using their knowledge from the public works you referenced to determine whether doing so was both safe and legal). Once that demonstrated itself to be surprisingly popular, they started adding videos about other stuff. Personally, I like the camping videos the most.
Caveat: I’ve done no research whatsoever other than watching their videos.
Thank you for your service!
When I hear “field work” I imagine, like… Farming. 😅
Found the dialectologist focusing on rural varieties.
Then we’re two. I gotta get the potato out of the ground soon.
Re: Ticks - If you’re in Europe get the TBE Vaccine!
If you’ve been in the forest or tall grass check for ticks. If you got bit check the bite, if it gets a circle with a dot (a bull’s eye) seek treatment straight away. Early treatment is key when it comes to Lyme disease and that bull’s eye is the early indicator.
TBE however got no treatment. The vaccine is an effective way to avoid infection.Does Europe include the UK or not in this case? NHS doesn’t provide the vaccine. Been bitten by a few ticks, only ever really tiny ones that are pretty much impossible to locate until a few days later. So far not caught anything.
Thinking of getting some DEET roll on insect repellent though.
According to the NHS the islands are still pretty safe when it comes to TBE.
As someone who worked this whole summer at a farm, make that three
Hopefully there will be a Lyme vaccine next year.
Around half of the people don’t get the bull’s eye, by the way. I wish more doctors realised this.
Haha yeah… bonus bushwhacking through blackberry and poison/stinging plant of your choice. In the rain.
Still worth it.
Barely.
Me when doing field work
go into scholarly pursuits
in order to spend all your time outside doing work that is difficult to reproduce
Why are biologists like this?
Well, it’s both though. Sone days it is really rough to keep working just because you can’t take all the abuse by the all insects anymore. And some days you’re just in a state of bliss because you spend so much time in nature and feel connected to it. And even more days you realize how fucking repetitive field work really is and that you need to do the exact same thing for the next weeks/months over and over again…
Most work in real life: excel, python, R.
I disapprove this picture.
