By Jessi Laughlin and Jasmin Perdue: Our class got the opportunity to take a tour of the Laguna de Santa Rosa located off Highway 12 just outside of Sebastopol. Wendy provided us with some articles from Brent Reed (our tour guide and Ecological Program manager for the Laguna) to read Read more
By Megan Gaitan and Julianne Bradbury: What, exactly, is the difference between “ecology” and “restoration ecology?” Where does one end and the other begin? Students in two Sonoma State University courses by those titles are discovering the differences, the similarities, and the joys of both concepts. In a shared field Read more
By Jana Johnston and Brian McIssac: Long Windy Drive to Tomales Bay The weather could not have been better as we climbed into the vans and headed to Point Reyes, CA. Today’s field trip was a combination of Hall Cushman’s Ecology class and Caroline Christian and Wendy St. John’s Restoration Read more
By Jordan DeSilva and Amy Unruh: The Day Begins Today day was the day that we all set out to take a stab at getting to know our new study site–Copeland Creek. Our restoration ecology class has been tasked with developing a baseline data report and the first step is Read more
I had the opportunity to attend a couple of fantastic events this week sponsored by ieSonoma (Innovate, Educate, Sonoma).
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As the semester winds to an end, I thought I’d share some artwork . . . a couple of things I drew for my students during finals week:
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Before there was a Teacup Rex blog, there was concept artwork. At the time, I never intended to use this as a blog of my own . . . I was just squatting on the URL so I could sell it for millions of dollars someday, when some genetic genuis Read more
This semester, one of the questions I asked on the final exam (to give them a freebie) was to ask them their favorite organism that we looked at during the course. I’m posting a few of my favorite responses here. I found this one particularly touching: “Thank You. You’ve actually Read more
I received this gift on the last day of class from one of my biology students. She’d grown it from a cutting . . . not only is the plant adorable, but it came with this (scientifically accurate!) caption: “Asexual plants: only 1 parent required. Parent passes all its genes Read more