Not much exciting to report today.
Well, it's pretty exciting to me.
I am neck deep in paper writing.
There are four main sections to a scientific paper: introduction (background), methods (what you're doing and how), results (what you found), and discussion (explain what your findings mean, any problems you had and possible directions in the future).
I feel pretty confident with my introduction so far, the methods is kind of done (just some fine tuning) and today has been crunching, crunching, crunching numbers.
I wouldn't say I'm half way done though. The fun stuff is just beginning.
It's important that I write out and explain what I found, run the right stats for it, make the right figures (graphs, tables, etc.) and explain those figures correctly in the paper...
Wowza is my head spinning!
And then I move on to the discussion.
I've spent the past six weeks tropsin' about in the jungle. Sitting behind a computer screen for 12 hours a day and just thinking is waaaaay more exhausting.
I wish I had some awesome pictur.....
jk
Of course I saw more awesome moths today!
I also learned something pretty cool from a tourist.
Socratea exorrhiza (Walking Palm) Try as I might to stay away from plants, this one is pretty cool. It grows up on these thick stilt-like roots, that way if there is too much competition for space or light it can extend new roots out in a certain direction to lean (sometimes at over a 45° angle!)
There were more butterflies than usual this morning flapping all around the river station.
I thought maybe there were some flowers blooming nearby that they were feeding on.
Eventually we discovered some tell-tale sign hanging on the vines in the nearby forest. There were thousands of them. Must have just emerged too. Pretty wild stuff!
Can't chat too long, I have my work cut out for me. As of writing this I have exactly 48 hours until my papers is due...I love a good challenge.
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