Return from Field update!

Hello Backers and Supporters,

Thanks to your support, we have completed the fieldwork and returned from Sri Lanka with data and samples to spare! We have spent the last weeks since our return filing, logging and organizing the data so that we and any future researchers will be able to make sense of what we did. The samples themselves are still on their way, and should be arriving in the next few weeks. Once they get hear, we can start prepping and analyzing our samples with all the technology available to us at LSU.

The fieldwork was a fantastic success. We visited 4 serpentine sites (and one that turned out not to be serpentine at all!) and collected soil and rock samples from every single one. The terrain was as diverse as it was beautiful, and no two sites were the same. I am having problems getting pictures up at the moment, but more will be coming soon!

There is so much to process and share from our fieldwork that it is hard to know where to start, but we have a plan! Next week (September 3-7), both here and on twitter, we will be sharing with you our week of fieldwork in "real time" so you can see what our experience was like. After that, we will be updating you with pictures of the samples, the names you gave, and our findings as we do our analysis.

As always, thanks for your support,

Don & Allison.