Best texts from the field (so far...)

Seventeen teams have been out deploying small seismographs and geophones along a 300-mile-long profile across eastern Georgia, and they have been checking in with me regularly by text message. Some highlights from texts and pictures from our groups:

“Team4 is Done! I repeat again, 4 is done! Heading back to the sweet onion city! ☺”

“Still alive”

“Team gruesome twosome on our way back to the hub”

“We are gonna skip installing 21520 because both sides of the streets are well maintained yards and there’s not a great place to put a Texan”

“We’re done! Just kidding haha. We’re on our second!”

“We’re in the zone”

“All geophones buried --- I am beat. Where’s a can of spinach when ya need one, lol”

“It's a long way to the top if you want to study rocks”

"Sunrise at station 21779"

“We’re dirty but doing well!”


“Still digging. Still have not reached China. Will attempt again on next hole”

 

“On 20186 and we lost our bubble level. We even dug up the last geophone to see if I accidentally buried it”

“We just deployed our last station, 20224. Can we go to Jekyll Island?”

Donna Shillington, LDEO