Data fun
Ending our trip with some good old data entry.
The boys look like they’re having fun.
Archive for year: 2015
Last Full Day
Today was our last full day at the Woodland field site and we had some special guests joining us. Tulane students with an array of majors joined us and we’re excited to get working and helping us with our surveys.
The wonderful student that my group got was Simone. She is an environmental science major and in ROTC. She was very excited about learning about the different plants and how we did our survey work. Just after a few 2Mx2M sections, she picked it up.
Thank you to the Tulane students that came out!
The last celebration
The group had some amazing Vietnamese food and wandered through the French Quarter one last time to say good bye to this wonderful city.
Last day in the Woodlands
Bitter sweet ending to the field work in the woodlands conservancy. Hard to say goodbye to this beautiful park but it was nice to meet and work with young Tulane University students.
Until Next Time
As tedious and tiring as the last week has been surveying the swamps, I am going to miss it.
Tulane Service Learning
We were joined today by a team of undergrads from Tulane. (Soon to be Dr.) Jayur Mehta’s Introductory to Environmental Science students joined us at Wooslands.
March 3-10 Santa Rosa Island Research & Spring Break
My field research continued at the beginning this month on Santa Rosa Island. This was my last opportunity to record the most current shoreline position on the Island. The day of surveying was completed during neap tide and was very eventful but malnourished sea lion pups put a damper on the day.
Sean Clark identifying a fern species on the island
Most of my time spent on the Island was spent helping my colleague Sean Clark with his plant collection on the island. The plant collection with contribute to 5 herbaria for local universities and botanical gardens. It has been great to learn about and key native as well as non-native species of flora found on the Island. It has been in invaluable experience to learn from Sean as he explores his passion.
The rest of my time was spent in the research stations libarary/GiS lab where I continued to finalize my historic and seasonal shoreline positions. I am now in the analysis phase of my research. Using USGS Digital Shoreline Analysis System I will be able to calculate inter-annual and intra-annual shoreline variation on Santa Rosa. Completing error analysis for historic shorelines will be the next step before analyzing my final data.
Conducting a shoreline survey on Skunk Point, Santa Rosa Island
Field Methods with the Western Foundation of Vertebrate Zoology (WFVZ)
I never thought I would be a birder growing up but that has all changed since my engagement at CSU Channel Islands and my enrollment in Ornithology. Recently I have had the opportunity to learn how to conduct transects, point counts, bird band and set up and take down mist nets. I was able to work alongside Dr. Linnea Hall, Executive Director and René Corado, Collections Manager for the Western Foundation of Vertebrate Zoology in assisting them in a demonstration for the Ornithology class.
Today’s wildlife :)
