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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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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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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
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Storage Space in Evernote
I remember reading something about you using Evernote, and I was wondering if you ever run out of space to store things? I was thinking about getting into using it. ~ Anonymous Hi! The short answer is, no – you don’t ever run out of storage space over the long run, Read more
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This Made Me Happy Today . . .
When I arrived in class today to proctor an exam for my Evolution students, I found this on the whiteboard: It legit made me so happy. Also, I told them I would be happy to give them all extra points on their exams … except I wasn’t the one who Read more