Hello all, For what its worth, My undergrad field school instructor advised us never to take field notes in pencil. He gave the example of an inexperienced field assistant erasing a page of what they thought was 'bad' data. Of course, they later discovered the error and the measurements were lost.
Pen might be messier or more expensive, but there is no chance of the data being accidentally (or heaven forbid, purposely) deleted. Chris On 6/5/07, Barbara White <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > We would like to solicit people's ideas about what kind of pens or pencils > they think are appropriate for taking field notes with respect to > permanence. >
