Hydrologist and nature…
The first tries to understand the
other. The other neglects or makes use of the other. Once instruments are installed in the field (fresh
new material) it doesn’t take long until nature takes over.
This time the damage isn’t from
insects but from bored cows. It seems when humans are gone and it rains*.
Cows are
bored and going to the fenced tipping buckets. They play with the loggers,
flossing their teeth with cables and use sequential sampler tubes as chewing
gum. Last year we never had problems
and the barbed fence worked perfectly. However one year later the cows grew and
just reached the r-gauge.
*We know it was during the event because one bottle from the
sequential sampler was full. The others empty :S
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| Rain gauge 9266 with signs of distruction |
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| Broken tipping bucket cable with |