Almost time to go!

I'm all packed, the equipment has been shipped (Thanks Genevieve!) , and I think we are pretty much ready to go. We all meet up tomorrow morning at noon to load the last of our stuff into the car we are taking to JFK, and then off we go. This trip is to include:


Dr. Robert Mason-organizer, Professor of Marine Science/Chemistry
Terill Hollweg-Graduate student in marine science
Susan Gichuki-Graduate student in chemistry
Tristan Kading(moi)-undergraduate in marine science
Robert Busch-undergraduate in pre-med

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A large amount of the preparation for this trip was cleaning everything that would be used for sampling mercury with acid baths. Every bottle pictured has been scrubbed, rinsed with high purity deionized water, soaked in nitric acid, soaked in hydrochloric acid, and rinsed many, many times with high purity deionized water.