Today I had a great group of undergraduates in the Microplastics lab learning how to process sand. They all helped me organize and catalog the 100 plus samples we have gathered from all over the globe! A few of them are thinking about continuing the project into their senior capstone and investigating the abundance of plastics across our global sandy beach ecosystem.
I have been working on extracting data for Water Canyon watershed for the American Association of Geographers conference held in San Francisco this year. I have also finished a rough graph. Showing the change in veg. class from 1993-2015.
Life in California is fast and hilly! I definitely appreciate the mountains and regulations we have here in California, but I think us Californians could learn a thing or two from the South. For one the culture is alive there, everyone is living it and it is all different in each person, we should embrace our individual cultures and identities, but respect and learn from the cultures of others.
New Orleans is a beautiful place that we should preserve as long as it makes sense to. But I learned how important flexibility in resource management needs to be, the environment is not steady and unchanging so we can’t be either.
Thanks for the good time NOLA, I’ll be back!
A few weeks ago I set up the greenhouse on the CI campus for germination trials of Santa Cruz Island Bush Mallow (Malacothamnus fasciculatus). I’m happy to report that some of the seeds have germinated! So far I have around fifteen seedlings, and hope to get more over the coming weeks.
Spring Break was spent in New Orleans with Dr. Sean Anderson. Dr. Anderson has been taking a class to NOLA for the last ten years to do wetland restoration, build community gardens and farms, and learn about the history and culture of the city. We spent eleven days in NOLA, and it was a remarkable experience.
After a little over 10 full days in New Orleans, I am having a hard time getting back into the swing of things. The trip was amazing, to say the least. I learned so much about the ecology, history, culture, and cuisine of such a unique place. We worked hard and the days were long but it was so much fun and such a rewarding experience. You can go to our class blog here, to read more about our adventures in the Woodland Conservancy wetland forest, building food gardens, and experiencing NOLA culture/food.
There are about 6 weeks left in the semester and it is crunch time! Next week I will be headed to Santa Rosa Island for my last data collection which I am looking forward to. More project updates to come next week after I decompress from New Orleans!
I am looking in to using Kernel Density Vs Buffer zones to delineate possible grove expansion in the future. The March 11-13 was good even though it rained the first day I got another 200 trees complete. the next trip is on April 1-3 and i should be able to do something similar that trip.
Today was a good day! i went to the greenhouse to water and found five seeds that had germinated. I was getting a little worried because it had been about three weeks with no change
It’s been a slow couple of weeks. Two weeks ago I finished up for the most part being with the high school. The only thing left to do with them is to take them out to the island and to get them to really see what it’s like to be out doing research. Last week was spring break, I used that time off to do some reading for our big paper that we are working on. There is a lot of papers out there about citizen science so that is always good.
Today I have finally started to work on getting all of my stats together. So for my stats I am working with an excel sheet that Kahoot.it makes for me when the quiz is done. That is the nice part so a lot of stuff is already put into place I just need to add some more stuff to it and make a nice bar or plot graph. Over all my project is coming together nicely I just need to get it all in place and have a few people look it over for me.
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