Today was a pretty long day for group 3, but whats most important is we managed to power through. We started off with the same routine of loading up the truck, getting breakfast together, and packing our lunches for the field. We visited one of Ellie’s sites in the morning and she showed us how to set up the GNSS and we helped her take a sample. It’s really interesting helping with her research in addition to ours because it teaches us skills outside our own science objective like learning how the GNSS works. After that we drove to Elliptical pool 13. It was quite a walk to get there because we headed in the tundra at the wrong angle but we managed to find it and surprisingly the pools were a lot bigger than the previous elliptical pools we looked at! Because of this we faced some obstacles like determining how to cross the chutes and how to measure the water points in a safe way. Thanks to Ellie for taking all the water points in her dry suit with the help of the pack raft! It took longer than expected so afterward we went back to Ellie’s sites, grabbed some samples and the GNSS and headed back to Toolik to eat dinner and do end of the day tasks like unloading the truck and offloading data. Overall we powered through a tough day and made it work!