Weeks 4 & 5

January 30th, 2020
2300 o’clock
El Calafate, Argentina

Isotopes are for review. ¹³C: ¹²C. This ratio is called “Pee Dee Belemnite” (PDB) and is a standard for carbon istopes when doing paleoclimatology. It will help us determine where we are in the formation agewise. We are using only 1 of 2 in the world that my company uses. I believe the instrument will be help us temendously. I am glad Miguel Martinez, our Mexican expert on mass spec and host, will be running it and showing me how to work with such an instrument. The peaks and valleys of isotopic spectrums will be like artwork Picaso did and intended to mean a certain something that to most is undertiminable. 


*Math then pictures, right?



I have finally left the ship and made my way via 2 helicopter flights back to shore. Among the passengers was a Shell executive and his VIP entourage, and we all ended up having the same plane flight to Mexico City where I finally made my way to the Southern Hemisphere. I was reminded of US Navy Admiral Rickover trying to get everyone to leave. Do it right the first time. 


“I believe it is the duty of each of us to act as if the fate of the world depended on him. Admittedly, one man by himself cannot do the job. However, one man can make a difference. We must live for the future of the human race, and not for our own comfort or success.” 
― Hyman G. Rickover 

They had a flight to catch. Having been on the ship 23 days I suppose I was ready to leave, and my first flight was all but turned around to go back and get the big wigs. They still wanted lunch. I ended up herding them with an ice cream sandwich in hand back to shore. Thankfully,  we all made the plane flight within 20 minutes. They were moving slow. Everyone else was scared to move faster than a snail’s pace. Not me. When asked, “Are you a Turtle?" I answer, "You bet your sweet ass I am."



After finally arriving to the Southern Tip of the world in El Calafate today I was able to get in the field again on land. The Southern Cross graced me. Here are a few of the fossils, and in the distance Chile, the Andes, and later this week Glacier trekking and mapping:









I am glad and thankful to finally be in a Land Rover and not a boat or a helicopter. Patagonia and I just met.

This is SeaQuest 2020 signing out. 



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