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You find these amazing chandeliers all over New Orleans Louisiana.
Aka NOLA.
Meeting Mark Schleifstein, NOLA.com
Today we were lucky enough to meet with Mark, an environmental reporter for NOLA.com: New Orleans’ leading website for news and information. He runs their hurricane blog and is solely responsible for reporting news related to all things environmental, weather, levee, and hurricane related.
See his blog here.
He predicted a hurricane with devastating effects like Katrina three years before it hit in his series titled “Washing Away“.
Po’ Boys and Music Talk
Posted from Fresno, California, United States.
Thanks Mark for the talk! It was great to get an inside look at how a record label is operated in New Orleans. And deep fried pickles are my dream food.
National Parks Course
Fun “hippie-esque” image for National parks presentation
(Model: Thomas Wilson)
Presentation on sustainable practices in Yosemite
Shelton Johnson- Buffalo Soldier
Costa Rica trip
Black Leatherback Sea Turtle
Costa Rica Native
Monkey
Collecting data on Mangrove plant species
Bat
Humming Bird- Lampornis calolaemus
Family- Trochilidae
Order- Apodiformes
Red Winged Macaw-Ara chloropterus
Family: Psittacidae
Order: Psittaciformes
BP Oil Chat with Michael Blum
Visited Dr. Blum at Tulane University, discussed the 2010 BP oil spill in greater detail.
A break from the action
Looking up one of the man made drainage canals brimming with life. Turtles, frogs, snakes, lily pads and much more.
Growth of Invasive Trees
Part of our work saving the bottomland hardwood forests is quantifying just how bad our invasive woody species actually are. In that vein, we established a group of marked (natural recruits) invaders out on our Trail C at Woodlands Trail three years ago and have been looking at their demography each year since. This allows us to estimate the rate at which these species couple take over the canopy if left unchecked.
We have marked all of our trees with spray paint and located their exact positions with our sub-meter GPS. Last year we had the brilliant idea to actually put numbered aluminum plant tags on these suckers. The only issue we discovered this season was the growth rate of these trees is such that these wires holding the metals tags to the tree sometimes could not keep up with the phenomenal growth in the girth of these trees.
Core Hypothesis:
The bird communities in this study will shift upward in elevation and stay as close to still water as possible. The precipitation will continue to stay at a decreased level, continuing the ongoing drought. The lack of precipitation will also have a decreased effect on the amount of consumable substance, forcing their populations to gradually decline.
