Today we went to Bedrichov water reservoir. I was in a boat with
William and Josef taking water samples from different depths in two
points. We also measured water level, temperature, oxygen saturation and
clarity. William was rowing to the middle of a lake and I was rowing
back and we both managed it pretty well. There were two more teams, one
doing forest inventory and a second taking water samples from streams
around the reservoir. We finished work at noon and had lunch in a place
where we usually had dinner. The meal was more Italian then Czech - mushroom
soup and spaghetti with meat and sauce. And dinner was at our pension.
Our hosts were very kind to do barbeque sausages for us, which I enjoyed
a lot.
Between lunch and dinner we did lab work in the pension. Wrote down
data, tested water samples with special equipment, and weighed dried
grass samples.
It was Misae's turn to do a presentation and she impressed us a lot. For
many years she studied a book called "the Book of Kells", which is some
12 centuries old. It contains gospels and very sophisticated drawings
made by monks. She investigated the original ways of dye preparation
(colours were obtained from different plants, minerals or even insects)
and the meaning of ornament fragments. And what is most remarkable - she
reproduced 22 pages of the book with absolute accuracy using original
materials for dyes.
