OPEN WATER

Mono Monday:  It's still very cold out there this morning but the low temperature is up quite a bit (-2°F. - -   -19°C.) but the wind is strong leading to very low wind chills on the order -25°F. (-31.7°C.).

This is a section of the Mullet River where I spent 7 years detailing the effects of trout habitat enhancement for my first Master's Degree. Three years doing bottom sampling for aquatic invertebrates, one year doing habitat management installations and another three years evaluating the effects of the management procedures. Did I mention that I visited a half-mile long study section every day for seven years taking water temperatures, atmospheric temperatures and doing water chemistry analyses before, during and after the installation?  Did I mention making maps of the entire study area, before, during and after?  This was back in the 70s before modern sampling methods were developed. Now they have embedded instruments to sample temperatures 24/7 and all you have to do is retrieve the sample modules and download data directly into your laptop and graphs were drawn immediately by the Chart Wizard. I did it all by hand....before laptops were invented.

Come to think of it, computers were around in the 70s but a computer that could do what a laptop can do today would have occupied an entire room of a building (if not the whole building) and the entire power grid would have dimmed every time you turned it on. Amazing developments in technology have become manifest in only twenty years after that.

Extra: The color version of the B&W