What I am doing for my summer job
Maegwitch/Bouzhoo!
I am currently working a-way up north (Just North of lake Nipigon, check it out on the other side of your ontario road map) An hour North of Armstrong, Ontario - about a four-hour drive from Thunder Bay. We have a tent camp on Seymour Lake, and are about halfway through covering the roads on our map area. we are looking and recording the bedrock geology of the area at a scale of 1:50 000 (so 1cm on the map = 50 000 cm in reality). A measure of an average day goes like this:
7am: get up
7-8: eat breakfast, coffee, wake up
8-9: prep for day, drive out to site
9-10: start looking at rocks: - find an outcrop, spend 1/2 hr - 1 hr examining, measuring, samples, etc
4:30-5 pm: pack up, head for camp
5:30-6: supper
7 - 9: bathe in lake/swim
9-11: data entry/free time
11-12: head for bed
six days a week we work, and part of the seventh is used for trips to replenish jerry cans/fuel, water and groceries. there are eight of us up in camp: Carole Anne, our boss, the geoscientist, Mariska, a master student and senior geologist, Dave and myself: two upper juniors, Scott and Dan: two lower juniors, and Chris and Darby, two native students with no previous geology experience. Mariska, Chris and Darby only joined us in July, and Dave leaves once I get back. We are in an area with 3 billion year old rocks, in what was a series of island arcs that got pushed and welded on the mainland (think about Japan being shoveled onto China and looked at 3 billion years later). The rocks are really messed up, but neat - theyre a complex puzzle as to what has happened to this part of the world.
June was really buggy - and they grow the bugs big up in Northern Ontario. Blackflies, Mosquitos, Deerfly, Horsefly and moosefly - all bite, and there are tons of 'em in the bush. We wear bug repellent to stop ourselves from looking like we broke out in hives, but some always make it - my ankles look horrible! the heat will keep them down, but they'll still be waiting for us to enter the bush...
we're in a camp - so no A/C, no electricity (save from the generator, which is used for the office tent and rock saw) no heat (the nights can be really cold - near freezing!) and no running water. we boil water from the lake to wash dishes and haul water for the rock saw from the lake. It's a lot of work, but it's fun -booting around in the bush on ATVs is tons of fun!
I have about 6 more weeks, then my contract is up Sept. 1. However, I have been offered a Masters at Lakehead, and am considering taking it.
Okay, it's nearly midnight, and I have to be up for 6 a.m. to get on my flight for Thunder Bay tomorrow. I'll write more when I get the chance.
I am currently working a-way up north (Just North of lake Nipigon, check it out on the other side of your ontario road map) An hour North of Armstrong, Ontario - about a four-hour drive from Thunder Bay. We have a tent camp on Seymour Lake, and are about halfway through covering the roads on our map area. we are looking and recording the bedrock geology of the area at a scale of 1:50 000 (so 1cm on the map = 50 000 cm in reality). A measure of an average day goes like this:
7am: get up
7-8: eat breakfast, coffee, wake up
8-9: prep for day, drive out to site
9-10: start looking at rocks: - find an outcrop, spend 1/2 hr - 1 hr examining, measuring, samples, etc
4:30-5 pm: pack up, head for camp
5:30-6: supper
7 - 9: bathe in lake/swim
9-11: data entry/free time
11-12: head for bed
six days a week we work, and part of the seventh is used for trips to replenish jerry cans/fuel, water and groceries. there are eight of us up in camp: Carole Anne, our boss, the geoscientist, Mariska, a master student and senior geologist, Dave and myself: two upper juniors, Scott and Dan: two lower juniors, and Chris and Darby, two native students with no previous geology experience. Mariska, Chris and Darby only joined us in July, and Dave leaves once I get back. We are in an area with 3 billion year old rocks, in what was a series of island arcs that got pushed and welded on the mainland (think about Japan being shoveled onto China and looked at 3 billion years later). The rocks are really messed up, but neat - theyre a complex puzzle as to what has happened to this part of the world.
June was really buggy - and they grow the bugs big up in Northern Ontario. Blackflies, Mosquitos, Deerfly, Horsefly and moosefly - all bite, and there are tons of 'em in the bush. We wear bug repellent to stop ourselves from looking like we broke out in hives, but some always make it - my ankles look horrible! the heat will keep them down, but they'll still be waiting for us to enter the bush...
we're in a camp - so no A/C, no electricity (save from the generator, which is used for the office tent and rock saw) no heat (the nights can be really cold - near freezing!) and no running water. we boil water from the lake to wash dishes and haul water for the rock saw from the lake. It's a lot of work, but it's fun -booting around in the bush on ATVs is tons of fun!
I have about 6 more weeks, then my contract is up Sept. 1. However, I have been offered a Masters at Lakehead, and am considering taking it.
Okay, it's nearly midnight, and I have to be up for 6 a.m. to get on my flight for Thunder Bay tomorrow. I'll write more when I get the chance.
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