Check out my bad self

Thanks Chris for that wonderful phrase!

so the latest is this - the team at the moment is me, Gerd, Shunqi (arrived last night and instantly put everyone in a good mood!), lawrence, charlie, and andre. Gerd is currently liasing with the technical staff about today's run (B2 I believe - long period 6s waves, medium sea and lagoon levels - 2.5m) . We are chopping and changing between series B and C in response to the morphology of the beach - we do not want to oversteepen too early, but more of that later in the daily notes.

Lawrence is working on calculating the throughputs through the system - there are losses of water from the lagoon into the reservoir, and also from evaporation etc, that are not recorded therefore currently not accounted for. he has also been working with gerd and myself in examing wave statistics with and without wave reflection compensators being turned on during runs.

I have been manning the instrument rigs, doing sediment samples, logging video, taking notes and checking all logging computers during runs. During runs, one person is required to ensure water levels on sea and lagoon are kept to within 1cm of how we want them, which involves constant monitoring and occasional manual adjustment using Delft's sophisticated pumping software (Its so sophisticated no-one knows how it works, really!). the automatic wave reflection compensator is doing a fantastic job

Charlie and Andre have spent the past two days ironing out some technical issues with the offshore rig instrumentation, all of which is (fingers-crossed!) currently resolved - again, see the daily notes for more information. they are currently fixing instruments to the rig, which is currently sitting on top of the beach

Andy B left yesterday, and he and Gerd had some interesting and useful discussions about the experimental programme for the overwash experiments

The previous two days we've had technical problems galore - see the diary for more details! yesterday we ran series C1 (low lagoon, MSL, default waves). Gerd has some graphs to show, and informs me he will load them up later.

A word of warning to arrivals in the next week or so - its really hot and sunny so bring hats and suncream!