A lot of people were involved in the successful execution of this experiment.
Below are some pictures of some of the folks, both FUNVISIS employees, and
helpers from other institutions, that were involved with supporting the project.
These two pictures were taken at the beginning before our first deployment,
and before everyone was worn out.
Happy Birthday FUNVISIS!! The last week that I was there was a week of celebration. On the 24th of August it was the birthday of"El Libertador", Simon Bolivar. That week was also the 29th birthday of the FUNVISIS organization. Several days of the week were filled with presentations, concerts, an inter-departmental football tournament (soccer to us Yankee gringos), and a party Friday afternoon, which I had to leave early to get ready for my flight back.
The cheerleading squad.
In thinking back over the whole project, I'm not sure how we did it, but I think it was a great success. We all learned a lot about conducting an experiment of this size. This was the first project of this size for most of the employees and helpers there, and everyone did a really good job.
In closing, I'd like to thank the Presidenta of FUNVISIS, Nuris Orihuela Guevara, for her help in getting a lot more than I know about accomplished, and for even helping out at 2 o'clock in the morning to get the equipment cleaned up and packed up for shipping back to the USA (below). I'd also like to thank Michael for making it a fun trip by showing us a bit more of Venezuela than just the places where we were working, and for also for letting me borrow a few of his photographs for these pages. And last, but not least, I'd like to thank all of the little people from FVIS and the other institutions that helped out with the work, and also with the fun.
Sunsets get better as you get closer to the equator...
THE END
2018-02-08