micmitch's blog

   A typical day for us started around 7:00 am when we meet for breakfast before departing for the field at around 7:30. After a 30-45 minute drive out to the site two people would begin prepping the source and Dr. Liberty would ready the equipment in the recording van, while the rest of us laid out cable, planted geophones, and painted identifying numbers next to the geophones. After enough of the line was laid out we could begin shooting. Typically, we fired four hammer blows at the midpoint between each of the geophones which were planted at 5m intervals.

These last few weeks have been focused on testing equipment, getting the new weight drop opperational, and packing for the field. We will drive up to Bremerton, a town just west of Seattle on the Kitsap Penensula, tomorrow and begin collecting data on Wednesday morning. We plan to shoot a series of lines in three different regions to the west of Bremerton. The hope is to be able to shoot roughtly 2 km of line each day for 14 or 15 days. After returning to Boise around the 24th of July I should have a few weeks to help analyze data before flying back to Colorado.

Day 1 (June 9^th)