Riikka left and was replaced by Thomas Holst from the university of Lund. He is responsible for the Eddy flux tower that will measure BVOC continuously. Yesterday he started to build a small hut for his PTR-MS. However, the PTR-MS were in a container, and we had to get it out in the field (a few hundred meters and 150 kg). Luckily a car could do some of the work, but in the end we actually had to move it by our self. 5 people and a trailer made it quite alright and Thomas now has his instrument established... It was kind of a project thought...
We have now also installed the last block out in the field, so Thomas can reach it from his hut. I think we chose a good spot, it was kind of a problem though, because the dwarf birch, Betula nana, had really long roots so we are a bit worried that we killed some of them...
Christian and I fixed one BVOC instrument yesterday, we found a leak and tried to stop it, and I think we succeeded.
The mosquitoes are slowly waking up now, it will be a mess in a few days I believe.
Over and out...
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