Both good ideas. However where I stay in the West Indies is not a hotel or a motel or a time share. There is no-one to receive a Fedex. I would have to greatly inconvenience a friend or acquaintance by shipping it to them and having them deliver it to me later.

I understand the idea of leaving stuff behind, and I do that every time to some extent, but I prefer to re-use rather than discard if at all possible.

Another advantage of packable sifters etc is that if I am lucky enough to get a day trip to another island, I can put the equipment in my backpack and take it with me.

Susan


> On Feb 21, 2015, at 6:16 PM, Martin Eastburn <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> 
> I worked in industry - a high tech - for many years.
> 
> Our travel was often not planned but when it was, we often shipped tools / equipment / manuals etc
> by Fed EX to the hotel we were staying and it would be there when we got there.
> 
> Another concept to consider - drop ship it to the hotel/motel/timeshare and use it while there and discard.
> Bring back the booty but not the dredge needed to find it.
> 
> Martin
> 
> On 2/21/2015 3:34 PM, Susan J. Hewitt and/or Ed Subitzky wrote:
>> I too am very interested in hearing people’s suggestions for screening as a way to concentrate micros from beached marine material, rather than taking whole sediment samples home. I fly to my destination(s), and therefore I can’t take much in the way of bulky or heavy equipment.  I also never know what is going to be available in the kitchen of the house I will be staying in.
>> 
>> I do always take a couple of metal kitchen sieves with different-size meshes.
>> 
>> That Amazon soil sieve set looks promising...
>> 
>> I am also interested in hearing from anyone who has had luck in paying/bribing folks who work in a scuba business to grab you a good sample of sediment from the bottom off the edge of a coral reef underwater.
>> 
>> Thanks,
>> 
>> Susan
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