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Writing a Successful Blog Post
As we’ll all be adding to this blog over the course of the semester, I thought I’d start the ball rolling with a post about how to write posts. Mostly, it’s just what you (probably) expect – you’ll be writing about what happened during a field trip or event, and posting Read more
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Catchy Title (Doesn’t have to be strictly descriptive)
By Wendy St. John: Is it your turn to write a blog post, and you’re not sure how to get started? No worries. Just follow the format here, and you’ll be off to a good start. At the very top of the post, make sure to include the names of Read more
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Swimming Free
By Wendy St. John, Nicole Christie, and Nick Geist: Today was the big day for a cohort of juvenile turtles, as they swam in the waters of their home lake for the very first time. These western pond turtles (Emys marmorata) were hatched in the lab of Dr. Nick Geist Read more
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Graduate Showcase
Presented my poster again today, as part of SSU’s Graduate Showcase:
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Rules for Teachers
While taking some time away from the annual meeting of the Western Section of The Wildlife Society, we visited a few places in the old downtown area of Sacramento, including the Old Sacramento Schoolhouse Museum, a replica of the type of schoolhouses that were found in the area in days gone by. The building was charming, and apparently they provide tours and an educational program for thousands of schoolchildren every year. (My son and I spent the day at a similar museum in the Dougherty Valley a few years ago, where his class was walked through a typical day in the life of a schoolchild from this era).
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Paleontology Illustrations
One of the things we were required to do in Paleontology was to keep a notebook with field notes, and also illustrations of specimens we’d studied in class. I’m pretty happy with the way some of these drawings turned out, so I thought I’d post them here.
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Dissections in Vert Morph – For Science!
(Post backdated to 2010, when these photos were originally taken).
Dissections nearly scared me away from biology. No kidding, when I first graduated from high school, I considered going into biology, but I always vetoed the idea, because I was convinced I’d never be able to handle dissecting an animal that had once been alive.
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