Tuesday, October 14, 2008

2nd MAICh meeting

Long time since the last post ....Argentina.... holidays ...great places, bad transport system....
During the last two months very few things have happened: a quite big forest fire burned ~2500 ha next to Zaragoza and thus became my first priority.During August and September I have been busy doing field work in the area, installing 125 plots for fire severity assessment and forest biomass estimation. Therefore I had very few free time that I spent mostly around Madrid. The first time we went for a bachelor party of Cris`s friends, the second time for the wedding and the last time for the second Maich meeting. Actually none of these times we remained in the city.....

And now about the meeting...it was great seeing that so many people have come at the end: the "spanish" team: Cris, Fabri, Nacho, Emil, Argyro, Marc and myself and the "foreigners" Pana and Ervin. The meeting was held close to Segovia, in the mountains were we rented a rural house. During the first day we visited the natural park "Hayedo de Tejera Negra" and the one of the "black villages" (Valverde de los Arroyos)while the second we went for a village fair in Cantalojas. Of course we had a barbecue, followed by party afterwards were we rememberer the good old times :)