Kingston

This week I started work in Kingston, Ontario at the Queens University Isotope research facility. We'll be here for the next two months or so conducting hydrogen, carbon and nitrogen isotope analysis upon several hundred feathers collected from Western Sandpipers. The work is not exactly riveting, but the results should be (fingers crossed). So far we have labelled lots of glass jars, filled them with feathers and started washing them in a chloroform and methanol solution. Hopefully we'll start getting some results in a couple of weeks, but in the meantime cue lots of tedium! The weekends should be slightly more exciting as winter is starting to approach.