Beaver 1967 Alaska Journal 41 9 July (cont.) 1430 Tom Carter and I arrived at Beach Ridge, Micro-met area to sample. The weather is a slight mist, temperature about 36 F, very slight winds. The VOC sampler did not prove to be nearly as handy an instrument as I had hoped it would. It is too hard to handle and collecting is very time consuming when one person attempts to operate the machine. Besides, the sampling end won't fit in the vials. I gave up on the thing after several tries. See Diptera study for results of samples. After regaining the sticky bands, Tom and I continued on to Beach Ridge central marsh area. See Diptera study for this data also. We then saw a large flock of Long Tailed Jaegers sitting on the ridge as we drove to the sample area. They appeared to be eating insects but I couldn't tell for sure. They flew as we approached. We returned to the lab at 1645. 10 July Today a typical drizzly day. Moons level 3815 when I came back to the lab after breakfast. I worked on acid sample all AM. Talked with Dr. Pitelka about sampling this PM on a transect basis. Such good, in fact, this is the first real interest I've felt for this project. I hope I can stir up more interest because this project too promises as a good one.