Last Day

It is our last morning in Churchill, and we are all packed up to leave. Yesterday, we finished up our data collection in the Black Spruce Forest (don't worry, there will be more to do waiting for the next Earthwatch team) and entered our data and processed our samples back at the lab. Steve calculated our numbers, and we had collected samples of or from over 600 trees!  The distance my team had measured for collecting our point-centered quarters data was over half a kilometer.  After discussing what this data means to the research project (which I will be sharing with you when I return to school tomorrow) we went up to the dome and got one last chance to see the Northern Lights. This was a fitting farewell to the Study Centre and to Churchill. This morning we have been saying our goodbyes and trying to get prepared for the very different lives we will be returning to when we get home, and for trying to put into perspective what we have been doing while we were away. See you all when I get there!