My Final Week on Forest and I was Survey Leader!!!!

After I got out of the hospital I had the weekend to recover and then on Tue and Wed i was Survey Leader. This basically involves me ordering the Forest Survey Groups about for two days. I had to plan out who was doing what, where, when and with what. Not quite as complicated as it sounds but still a fair bit of work.

The first day I worked everyone pretty hard sending groups out to Shimoni Forest East and West to set Small Mammal Traps, Pitfall Traps, Butterfly Traps and do Butterfly Sweep Netting, Primate Behavior, Bird Surveys and Canopy Survey. Everyone did really well but was incredibly tiered by the time they got back. After a few tweaks an adjustments here an there, I had planned out the following days Surveys. Everyone seemed to really enjoy the second day and we manage to get loads of data.

All in all it went pretty well, a few bumps along the way but definitely a positive experience.