… since my last entry, but this is also due to the fact that I was on vacation, spending some excellent time in Newfoundland, Labrador and the Quebec Cote Nord. Now that I am back to work – and dealing with a couple of administrative issues such as improving backups of GC-MS data by adding an Ethernet card to the data PC, I am having a close look at my recent data.
And it looks good, indeed. Data analysis is dead slow. There is a large number of compounds to compare and after my inital analysis, I have missed compounds in one run, but found them in the duplicate run, but after re-analysing the data it turns out that the compound is present in both runs (as it should be), but signals are quite weak, which is delaying my analysis.
However, once I am done with a sample, I am getting good results and even the weaker signals match well in duplicate runs. I have now analysed samples from three locations collected in 2005 (Mont St. Hilaire, McGill campus and Resolute [sampled 2004 for comparison]).
