Day 7- Bye Field work! Hello Research report!

I started my day with a kinda odd event. I woke up from the sound sleep of my roommate calling my name. I thought i was dreaming when I saw her on my bed inside my net!!!🤣 But there she was!🤣🤣 Until i heard the sounds of the crawlers (geckos, maybe) on the roof. She was bothered by the thoughts of animals getting into or space, especially after we had had a jaguar's fresh print encounter. There's nothing much I could've done but to reassure her that she's fine.
So, some of my team went out in our field site for one last time! We collected the butterflies 🦋 for id-ing, & I got samples of leaves for the Brix sugar test.
First agenda back at the station: get the leaf extract for testing. That's what's the garlic presser is for, gotta to innovate to get the juice!😎😂 And, I was really happy to see consistent results from the replicated data. The rest of the afternoon for me was to organize the microclimate data. One of my teammates put together drafts of the presentation while another started to write the journal report. Our team was hustling! I'm proud to have an awesome team!🥰
Of course, we never miss the chance to learn from the researchers. Today was on climate change, and El Niño while the round table was a preview of what we will do the nextday- the visit to the Maijuna tribe.
Why? Part of this research is to develop the understanding of the culture of the people that protects the Amazon and to help put a stop or slow down the plan to continue the construction of the road known as the 'highway to nowhere.' This highway will cut through 3 conservation sites, including the area of the Maijuna's. Something i learned today was that everything in Iquitos was brought in through the river route. With part of the highway built, it started to permit cars, trucks, humans to cause more disturbances to the place known to be the main driver of global weather cycle, largest Carbon sink, and multitudes of other ecosystem services with its rich biodiversity. With the rate that is going on, it is predicted to cause a major change in the forest by 2050.
Our group hopes to contribute to a worthy cause of saving this place called the Amazon rainforest before it's too late.Read more