When it rains here, which is constantly, I’m relegated to the Yasuní herbarium where I study tropical leaf morphology and current events from the late 1990’s as reported from Ecuador. Today, in the Sapotaceae section, Michael Jordan y los Bulls ganaron su segundo “three-peat” and the “Guerra de las Galaxias, Episodio Uno” opened in theaters.…
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Snail Adventures
A snail named Cindy Bick. Artist: Paul Pearce-Kelly Well it has been quite a while since my last post. Things have been quite busy for me at ZSL. I’ve been extracting demographic data from the ZSL database, travelling to meet with one of my research collaborators, and getting training in captive snail husbandry. I’ve also…
UM EEB Ph.D. alumnus blogging for the New York Times from Madagascar
From the New York Times, Wednesday, June 22, 2011, Scientist at Work, Notes From the Field blog by John S. Sparks, UM EEB Ph.D. alumnus (2001) and Christopher Braun. Sparks, curator of ichthyology at the American Museum of Natural History, writes from Madagascar, where he is studying cave fish. Sparks was a student of Professor…
Greetings from London
16 June 2011 Hello and thanks for reading one of my many posts (stay tuned!) from London. During my first few weeks at the Zoological Society of London (ZSL, also known as the London Zoo), I have learned a bit about what goes on in a typical day for a keeper at the world’s oldest…
Hi from Kibale National Park, Uganda
The locals who work in Kibale National Park (KNP) like to say, “In the forest, we use our eyes, ears, and legs”.Monday, May 30, 2011 I spend my first day of fieldwork following my field assistant, Richard Karamagi, through compartment K30 of Kanyawara. Centrally-located Ngogo and Kanyawara in the northwest are the two main research…
We are excited to get the EEBlog started!
Hi everyone,We are looking forward to signing up UM EEB graduate student bloggers who are conducting research anywhere around the world, including right here in Ann Arbor! Post a comment here if you’d like to take part and I’ll send you an invitation to post. The beauty of it is that the more bloggers we…