We are halfway done with the summer 2019 field season! Even though it's only early July, we've completely 9 of what will be 20 surveys for the summer! We've found clams at 7/9 of our survey locations this summer and even managed to find a legal size clam during our first field week! My life tends to be ruled by the tides. When there's a strong low tide (at least -0.5ft), I know about it, I schedule around it, and if I'm somehow not doing fieldwork... well I'm out tidepooling. Summer low tides in California can be exhausting. Most of them are in the middle of the night and we've been starting fieldwork around 1:30am. The schedule is: get into tent and try to sleep by 7:30pm, wake up by 1:30am, fieldwork for 3-5 hours, return to tent right as the sun is coming up, put on eyemask and desperately hope your tent doesn't warm up too early. Science and split sleep schedules. I love the former, so I tolerate the latter. Despite the challenge, there is something truly wonderful about being the only people on the beach. Watching the moon set, standing in the surf, full of gratitude for this amazing world we live in.
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