Just a quick update on the pollen core. We've been working hard to iron out all of the kinks and perfect our techniques/equipment, and today we pulled up two 3 meter long cores from the lagoon! They both should be long enough to answer the coconut question.
And something cool: You can see the point that the Navy came here and dredged around. There is a thin layer of sand sitting about half a meter below the surface of the sediment. Other than that, the core looks pretty much homogenous (thick tan paste) all the way through. Cool!
