It hardly seems like this year’s field school course has finished and we are back to organizing next year’s project. We will work in a new location next year, so there is a lot of preliminary organization to get on with. At the moment we are working on finalizing all the recording systems and data management strategies to be used. This is a big job because the project is new and we have a lot of people from the department involved, so we need to make sure all the researchers’ needs are met. Fortunately a range of experience and enthusiasm makes this task quite exciting as we think about how we can achieve our research goals from the point of view of the data acquisition. Our next big task is to develop new teaching resources for the course. These will help the students as they acquire new skills before, during and after the field school. Stay tuned, this should be one awesome field school!
~ Rebecca