Boats!

Here are a few of the many sturdy crafts we've been using to sample rivers in Thailand (we are studying how carbon cycles through the river system using a variety of techniques -- both studying CO2 gas in the water and carbon in sediment). My favorites are the tiny canoe-like crafts we've been on, which come with umbrellas in case it gets hot or rainy (you can see Bundit and his friend Tik, who came with us on a sampling of the Mun river in northeast Thailand, with umbrellas). Then there's the motorcycle ferry, which goes back and forth across a small tributary of the Mekong -- the driver lets our team use the boat to sample when nobody is waiting to come across. Unfortunately some of my pictures of our wonderful boat drivers are very underexposed, but you can hopefully make out the driver of the motorcycle ferry with his wife and me ... they were very friendly and sweet.