What is the best thing to do right after coming back from a geology field trip?

Question

What is the best thing to do right after coming back from a geology field trip?

Answer 1

sleep.  at least thats what i'd do.  But then, I love to sleep and do so every chance i get.

Answer 2

Write up everything for your report NOW, while it's still fresh in your mind.

Then go have a few brews.

Answer 3

Take a BATH!  Best one I ever had was after 5 days in field in frigid north in a tent with no chance to take one until I got back...  20 years later I can still remember that bath!

Gees they feel great after a day in the field. Then you can check your sample labels and fill in your notes with details.

Answer 4

As an earlier poster said, write up your notes.

Leave it till the morning and you will forget or muddle a lot of things.

Something the earlier poster missed:

Check all and every sample you took (if you took some)

Make sure they are labelled clearly, that the labels are indelible, and noted in your notebook too.

After that, relax using your prefered methodology :-))

Answer 5

I think the first thing I did when I got back from my last fieldtrip was to go to the pub but then again that was a 2 week residential fieldtrip where we did all of the work on site so it may be different.

If you have stuff to write up then do it now before you forget it.

Answer 6

Study about the real use of my several life saving inventions. I am 64 and fed up with the officials connected with this field.I was having the knowledge to issue the warning 2 hours before Tsunami struck our coast. I have designed more than 40 types of safety equipments.Only few of them are now in use.