I am in Suriname to teach Geophysical Exploration to students from the Anton de Kom Universiteit in Paramaribo. We (me and my colleague Poppe de Boer from the University Utrecht) have already given some classes and also had a fieldtrip. And of course we also enjoyed our free time! Some nice pictures are the result, here they are:
The view from the University Guesthouse.
This is the building where most of the classes were given. One of the few with airco....
I took a picture of some students. I teach a total of 20 students, which is two times more than last year. Oh yeah, we did not have airco in this room. Hot!!!
Cows on the loose at the campus. Quite normal here.
Cows on the loose, while birds are kept in cages. This is done by most men here. Especially mentioning the price of their bird is their favorite hobby. This poor little creature is called a 'piccolet' and worth about 500-800 SRD (130-250 EUR).
In the back of the bus on a geological excursion, led by Poppe de Boer. For a few hours excursion, we had a trip of a couple of hours in this small bus with bad roads. The students stayed happy and so did we!
Finally, a geological viewing point with some nice sediments (for a geologist)! Being a geophysicist, I liked the different patterns of saturation here, but especially the birds...
This is the oil-monument of Staatsolie in Saramacca. At a small depth, less than 100 m, they found oil here by coincidence, when they were drilling for water. The shallow oil has migrated southwards from deeper formations North of Suriname.
One of the main attractions for me this day: 'the last of the mangroves'. Mudbanks slowly migrating along the coast. Mangroves can grow and settle here in large numbers for years, but as the mudbans move, they slowly dispappeat. At this area there was only one left.
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