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Thanks, Program MARK
The stats program I’m working with right now just gave me this message: Pretty much sums up my life right now, really. 😀
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Turtle Release
Releasing some of our headstarted turtles back to their natal site. SO PRECIOUS!!!
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Biology Lab: Sponges, Jellies, Flatworms & Molluscs
We did a super cool lab this week – and a relatively photogenic one, at that – so I thought I’d post a few photos! We had a bunch of live specimens (mostly marine inverts from Bodega Bay), and we did our first dissection of the semester – a squid. SUPER COOL!
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Ticket to Success
The “Ticket to Success” program is designed to bring elementary and middle school children onto campus, to given them a fun introduction to higher education. I put together a display for the Biology Department, with bunches of interesting specimens from our museum collection.
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Fairfield Osborn Kelly Pond
Field trip to the Fairfield Osborn Preserve, with A Watershed Year freshman experience class. I hiked up to Kelly Pond with a group of students so they could collect field data for a research project. It’s quite a hike up to the pond, which is near the northern end of the preserve. Covered with Azolla, the pond is a peaceful and lovely place to visit.
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Bottom Up at Mountain Lake
A great article about a project my lab has been part of for the past few years. (Scroll about half way through the article to see my hand in the turtle photo haha). From the Bottom Up at Mountain Lake
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Ready, Set, Reintroduce!
Originally posted on the San Francisco Bay Area National Parks Science and Learning Blog The Presidio’s Mountain Lake restoration is moving forward this year with several native species reintroductions. The Sierran chorus frog (Pseudacris sierra), is slated to be the first species reintroduced. This species was extirpated from the Presidio Read more
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Who’s Awake? Me . . . too . . .
I have a little great horned owl buddy who’s been calling most nights for the past few weeks close enough to my bedroom window that I can hear her* while I’m in bed. Usually, she calls really late at night/early morning (between 2 and 4 a.m.). But last night, I Read more
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Best Joke Ever!
Today’s diversity biology lab was AWESOME! I knew it would be fun – we looked at Echinoderms, which are just super cool, and we had a bunch of live starfish and sea urchins for them to examine under the scopes. So, that part was expectedly great – we fed the Read more
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Spatial Analysis in Macroecology
It’s my turn to teach a lesson next week for the stats class I’m taking this semester (everyone has to do one; my topic is analyzing spatial data). This class was supposed to focus on SAS, but so far we’ve done almost nothing in SAS (which is fine with me Read more