July 2

Well, Happy belated Canada day everybody. I realise I haven't blogged anything in almost 3 weeks now but it's been pretty busy and alot of the same stuff that I have described before. For the last 2 weeks of june I was doing the same stuff with the adult sturgeon, catching them and testing stomach contents. It was really nice weather for most of our time out there and we got alot of sun being on the river every day.
On the 25thand 26th of june there were some people from our crew that were away so there was some people shifting so I helped with a project on larval sturgeon. They were very very little and kind of looked like little tadpoles more than little fish due to their weird triangular heads. Unfortunately I didn't take any pictures because that may have stressed the fish. The project itself was all about their stress levels and how certain elements of the way they were raised effects their stress levels later in life. Working with the very small sturgeon was very neat they were all a little more than half an inch long and very quick when they want to get somewhere. For this project I was working at the ATCO trailer again which is where my project was 3 years ago when I attended the DRSA as a student. It brought back the memories. haha.
There was quite a bit of wildlife around the trailer and during our breaks we saw deer, a fox, plenty of birds and there is also a pair of groundhogs that live in the area and you would see them pretty much daily. They kind of reminded me of my fat cat and I think I have come to the conclusion that my cat isn't fat, she's just half groundhog.
Anyway, back to what i'm up to this week. I haven't been doing too much this week but tonight is a bbq at the place the students are staying. They are just arriving today and then this evening the bbq is kind of a time for us tutors to meet them and get to know them a little bit. Then thursday and friday are kind of our orientation days with them and i'm sure by friday we will be well into collecting data for their project. So yes, that is what I have been up to, perhaps I will try and blog something again in less than 3 weeks. haha.