Bay Four
Nobody here knows the answer yet. That's the job.
Cold light, glass walls, and the low white noise of a dozen machines doing something patient. On the whiteboard someone has written a question in blue marker and underlined it twice.
The team is eleven weeks into a study on a water-quality problem showing up across three neighborhoods, and this morning the data stopped agreeing with itself.
The lead hands you a notebook — an actual paper one — and says, "Write down anything that surprises you."