Here we are busily examining a core, under James’ tuition, in the back ground we had some interested onlookers.

After a core has been examined and the layers have been identified, James starts to record the depth and type of the layers that have been identified. Jo has also been taking note, learning how to identify the differing sediment layers.

In case you’re wondering, not all of the auger survey is about sternly studying dirt, it has also been interspersed with moments of laughter. It is a fun mix of knowledge building and fun with everyone who is involved.

Right, back to the augering. The above photograph shows a small bit of wood that has been picked up by the auger, the wood is sitting at he bottom of the river channel that we had augered, this was about 4 metres down from the surface. The wood can be used to get a rough date for the channel, through radiocarbon dating. So the wood was extracted and placed in a bag for later analysis.