Nishihara Laboratory

Back in Kagoshima to retrieve the instruments we deployed last week. But I also brought the rain from Nagasaki. Hopefully the rain will remain a drizzle during retrival.

Are they going to finish on time? They are supposed to finish everything by the end of this fiscal year...

Today, the students are having their graduation ceremony. The undergrads and Masters have their ceremony done together.

The field season is already underway, but the semester doesn't begin until April. That doesn't stop us from running surveys, but using grant money is inconvenient. Since my Masters student is graduating, I didn't bring him on this trip, and it really showed. Setting up the instruments took much too long. An hour too long. But, Kotoe and Mako got everything going and with the help of  Prof. Terada, the instruments were placed in a nice dense Zostera patch.

鹿児島にくると、必ずホワイト餃子の餃子を食べに行くんです。昨日の調査は無事に終わって、１３時すぎに行ったら、餃子は完売。 かなしすぎる。 結局、和田屋にいって、みそラーメンにした。 本当は豚トロラーメンにしたかったが、相変わらず行列がながかったのでそちら...

This weekend, I am doing some field work in Kagoshima, and I was expecting the weather to be warm. However, today's high is only 14 ℃! 

It took about 4 months, but the scaffolding came down and we got our new "cherry blossom" colored building. The color not what we were expecting, and definitely not the same color that was shown to us from the catalog. In hindsight, we should have looked at the catalog under natural light and not the fluorescent ones! The building actually looks like a typical women's clinic in Japan, which are often some shade of pink or red.