Iceland update and pictures!

melannen, your map from the UMD library is a huge hit! It's Danish, and it's dated 1914 and 1934 - it was also updated in 1964, and we only have a digital version of the 1964 edition. So I think it'll get scanned and added to our GIS library. So thanks for that! *g*

Today we were out coring in the þufurs (thufers: small little tuffets of grassy earth that are formed by the frost in land that isn't artificially drained) and in the cow pastures. Didn't find much, but it's awesome. It is so much more fun than aerospace engineering, omg. The þufurs are covered in really tall weeds and grass - anywhere but Iceland we'd have been worried about ticks and worse. Not here though! There are still no bugs but crazy Icelandic flies that like to mate while sitting on my hand. But they'd don't bite.

Anyway, I typed up the rest of this post yesterday, and wrote it the day before. I'm not having a whole lot of time for internets. And I'm helping update the official blog, which is here.


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I have to run back to the house because I have a feeling I may be hogging the washer. In the meantime, enjoy.