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Friday, March 20, 2015

Non-seasonal wildebeest crossings and cholera outbreaks

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A herd of zebra and wildebeest just crossed the Mara River, North of Serena.  Geemi got a few good pictures of it.  Here is one of them... ...
Thursday, March 20, 2014

Logistics

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So here's how Tuesday unfolded... 2:50 pm - Alternator bearing froze in the middle of the Mara. We had already been suspicious of th...
Tuesday, March 18, 2014

True safari experience

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Wouldn't be a true safari experience without a breakdown! Alternator bearing froze approximately 500 meters after a mechanic told us we ...
Friday, March 14, 2014

The Hippo Test

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After our test run with the robotic boat the other day, we were feeling pretty confident the boats would be fine in the river... it was ju...
Thursday, March 13, 2014

Late night testing in the rain

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Wednesday, March 12, 2014

Can a robotic boat tell us what's at the bottom of a hippo pool?

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What happens inside of a hippo pool? Is it deep with a hard bottom, because the hippos are always wallowing out the mud and sediment? Or is...
Saturday, March 8, 2014

Closing the streams

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After about a month of running our experimental streams, it was time to finish out the experiment. The main thing we wanted to measure was ...

It all comes back to silica

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After Emma and David left, we hosted two colleagues from Antwerp University, Belgium, in the Mara. Jonas Schoelynck and Eric Struyf study ...
Friday, March 7, 2014

If optical brighteners are in the Talek, shouldn't the water be "whiter and brighter"?

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After spending two great weeks with us, David had to return to the US, but we had one more week in the field with Emma. During this time, ...

How to flush a hippo pool

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I know our last post was several weeks ago, so you all probably think we have been off celebrating ever since getting our experimental str...