Well, reality of the end of summer is setting in. A collision of schedules and a busy calendar have left only a single time slot this week for Ash surveys.
Anybody interested can be part of a survey crew from 8:30 to 11:30 AM on Wednesday, August 22. This adventure will involve the collecting of plant specimens, and we hope to have a good description of ground cover, shrub layer and epiphyte plants from one study site by the end of this small-scale bio-blitz.
I can pick up students at Unity or at their homes depending upon parent preference. It should be a fun adventure!
If you are interested, please email bcbiocollins@gmail.com
I will also be making a round of phone calls.
Have a great day! Hope to see you afield!
Brian Collins
Tuesday, August 21, 2012
Monday, August 20, 2012
Week of August 20...Updates coming!
Hello!
I'm back from Washington State and enthusiastic about the next round of surveys. I won't be running any crews today (Monday, August 20), and I still need to mesh my field times and dates with Unity's technology academy running this week.
I'll post updates tonight as I learn more!
Hope to see you this week sometime!
For those who have been measuring ash trees with me, check out the attached pictures. While our reigning champ black ash has a circumference of 191 centimeters (nearly 2 meters), we enjoyed a sitka spruce tree in Washington with a (pause for dramatic effect) circumference of (another pause for drama) 18 meters! I took a picture of my kids next to the tree. Check it out! (They are the tiny pink and blue dots down in the corner at the base of the tree).
Brian Collins
I'm back from Washington State and enthusiastic about the next round of surveys. I won't be running any crews today (Monday, August 20), and I still need to mesh my field times and dates with Unity's technology academy running this week.
I'll post updates tonight as I learn more!
Hope to see you this week sometime!
For those who have been measuring ash trees with me, check out the attached pictures. While our reigning champ black ash has a circumference of 191 centimeters (nearly 2 meters), we enjoyed a sitka spruce tree in Washington with a (pause for dramatic effect) circumference of (another pause for drama) 18 meters! I took a picture of my kids next to the tree. Check it out! (They are the tiny pink and blue dots down in the corner at the base of the tree).
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