So far this mission we have been gearing up and getting used to things so there has not been much time for science. When it does occur, most science will be geology or GreenHab related. One of the problems is that you come to the hab totally blind as to what is achievable because you are unaware of the facilities available in the lab. Once you get here, you may want a piece of equipment which is here but you are unaware of it, so you are wasting time or abandoning a line of inquiry. To solve this problem, I will be compiling a list of the lab equipment available so that future crews are aware of what they will be able to use. However, lists like these can quickly become obsolete if they are not updated. I would suggest that it should be made mandatory for each crew to do a stocktake near the end of their rotation and pass on the inventory to the next crew, or better yet publish it on the website before the next crew arrives. Keeping the information on a spreadsheet on the hab laptop will make it quite painless to update.

Also, a lot of reagents are past their expiry date, and a lot of solutions that have been made by hand are not dated so there is no way of telling if they are still good. One reagent expired in 1995, before the Mars Society was formed, I believe! Given our limited resources we will have to take expiry dates with a pinch of salt, but nine years old may still be too much.