Field Season 2010 Dates

May 10, 2010

I have just gotten through, I hope, the process of being rehired by the Tree-Ring Lab so that I can actually go do field work this summer.  In an attempt to preserve money for the rental of porta-potties this summer I have not been turning in time sheets so the University dropped me from the payroll.  So after proving that I am a citizen, letting them check my background and giving them references for my previous employer (1956, Dr. Holden, Texas Tech Museum–no they cannot talk to him as he has been dead for about 30 plus years)

I am back to giving information about this project.  Yes, more money was added to the account. Yea!!

I hope to be in our camp area from July 24 to Aug 14.  This will allow the last week to coincide with the North American Dendro FieldWeek for the last week we are there.  Rex has a new knee and is getting familiar with it so he is unsure how much he will be able to do as a collector but we have a request for someone to sit at the visitor center on occasion and show the process of dating specimens.  This might be Rex or it might be me.  I have been seeing a lot of doctors lately (one more session of chemo to go) and seem to be allowed to do field work. Now if I can just get back into some semblance of shape.

What this could amount to is that I will need a bunch of collecting the first week and a half as we will probably be working with the Field week crew or some portion of them showing them how we collect, surface and date specimens while we are in the Whites. There is a better than even chance that  a photographer from National Geographic will be with us for a day or do but this is still under negotiation.

I hope to see you some time in late July or early August!

Tom Harlan

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