I heard on NPR the other day that Moscow had its darkest
month ever recorded with only 6 minutes of sunshine for the
entire month of December, 2017. This, down from an average of 18 hours of sunshine/month. I’m
having a hard time imagining either scenario.
That said, it has felt terribly dreary this winter with some pretty
serious cold temps keeping us inside a lot of the time. Our inside winter jobs have kept us busy in
our pursuit to finally catch up on a backlog of samples and as the lab chugs along and the days grow
longer, we start thinking about the upcoming field season.
We will have a busy field season, and I think I can speak for us all when I say that we look forward to getting outside into the wilds and out of our veg cleaning doldrums.
