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Certainly Toxicodendron radicans is very familiar to all of you I’m sure. So if the scientific name isn’t, the common name will be… Poison Ivy. Moreover it is a plant that I have been monitoring for friends. Ok, my non-human friends. LOL. Now should I raise one? Maybe I will. So I hope they like…
Kessler Atmospheric and Ecological Field Station (KAEFS) is a 360 acre (146 ha) environmental research and education facility located approximately 28 km southwest of the University of Oklahoma campus in Norman. KAEFS is home to a number of long-term meteorological and biological experiments. Wednesday morning (July 10th) Jeanne and I headed to the field station….
First a few more photos from the park walk. On conference day we were treated to some good presentations! Tomorrow the conference’s field trip! New Research Shows Why You Don’t Need To Be Perfect To Get the Job Done Fish Use Physics to Avoid Running into Each Other Maggie Aderin-Pocock on diversity: ‘It’s hard to…
This past week Jeanne and I headed up north to Norman, OK to attend the TORCH conference. TORCH stands for Texas Oklahoma Regional Consortium of Herbaria. The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded the Botanical Research Institute of Texas (BRIT®) $1.5 million to digitize its 355,000 herbarium specimen collections from Texas and Oklahoma in 2019. The…
You remember when it was cool last Friday? Me too! So this is last post from the cool Friday (July 5th). Ok it was time to look at some more nest boxes around the hill. Who would I find taking up residence? What a cool time it had been! What Is a Species, Anyway? Butterflies…
The rest of the box checking was by car. Yes, I could have walked but I had already spent three hours lollygagging along the other boxes. So up the road! More boxes to check so onwards up the road! Meet the Taxidermists Who Care for the Animals at Your Favorite Museums To Save Life on…
Who can blame the creatures for avoiding me and the camera. Even though I try to tell them that fame and fortune will be theirs. 😉 Time to go check more boxes… What Do Bagged Chickens Have to Do With Sliced Cheese? Mysterious Symbols on 4,000-Year-Old Rock Art Hint at an Unknown Culture Keep looking!…
Jeanne’s family was visiting. So I had volunteered to check her nest boxes at the Thomsen Foundation. Furthermore on Friday I could not have asked for a more perfect day in July! Thank you Jeanne 🙂 My pace picked up… Did a comet burst crash Earth’s climate 12,800 years ago? Dr. Marian Pettibone Discovered and…
Sure hope we get some rain soon. Friday’s rain does not count here at our house. So far this year it has been either full on or off, eh. However at least we are having cooler weather. To Save Life on Earth, Bring Back Taxonomy These Ants Perform Life-Saving Operations on Injured Nestmates, Similar to…