Soil Moisture Part 2

So we finally broke out into groups yesterday.  The other two guys in my group seemed focused, always a good thing.  We came up with 2 different designs, both being somewhat off-the-wall.  The first is freezing the soil and somehow measuring the volume change (initially I thought it was mass change until I was corrected by someone else in the class later, so embarassing...).  The other was to use a completely "dry" sample and a saturated sample, store their masses, and use them as benchmarks for all the test samples.  Of course from my novice engineering speak, what I might be saying is completely ridiculous.  We sent off a memo to our professor, so hopefully he will give us clairity to our ideas.  But progess is great!  Can't wait for tomorrow....except for getting up at 8.