Field Book of an Ecologist

Lunch

The only way to fly, is after lunch at Sol Food.

Stream life

I found these eggs in the stream while I was incubating some bags of leaves. I have no idea what they are, but they were pretty.

Get the big picture on the wildfires

http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2008/07/californias_continuing_fires.html

Seventeen gorgeous pictures of the fires and fighting efforts across California.

An Oasis

This little plant is a morning oasis. The tiny hairlike trichomes covering the leaves collect dew and support a little community of insects.

Oops! Did I dye the river red?

Oops! Did I dye the river red?
Originally uploaded by botanize

I dumped 5ml (about two teaspoons) of 20% Rhodamine WT into Jack of Hearts stream. It was awesome. The stream turned red and pink. Don't worry though, Rhodamine WT is designed and EPA approved for this purpose. It's just that I used about 10x too much.

Field Day

I helped Jim deploy a bunch of pvc chambers filled with bug poop into Elder last week. It was a long day, and one of the first days the smoke was really bad. We worked all afternoon, and into the evening. Stream cooled beer was our incentive to keep working after the first couple of hours.