Our lab looks like a hurricane it it right now...

The Patricelli lab is now gripped in the swirling tide that takes months of “field prep” and magically transforms it into “field season”. We are in the process of parceling out our gear so that the people remaining here have what they need to start up local projects and the grouse project has everything they they might need. Lab meeting in an hour- and we may have to get creative to find places for everyone to sit! Needless to say there is still quite a bit of packing that needs to happen before we are ready to head out. Anna, Alejandro and I picked up the vehicles from Fleet Services this morning. Every year the vehicles seem to get more high-tech- this year the Snow Chief (Dodge pick-up) has an after-market addition to control trailer brakes, and the Durango has a talking GPS now. We’ll definitely have to figure out how to disable that. Gail has the inner parts for a new robot, so we’ll definitely be doing some sort of robot experiment this spring.