Sorry for the lag here! I got to spend this weekend back in Blacksburg taking care of bills, apartment stuff, and paperwork at school (and missed out on a few days of blogging). At least yesterday I got to spend the day by the pool! It was a nice relaxing weekend and I did get a lot of the business-type stuff done, which was nice.
Not too much new with the field work. We got to have a 3-day weekend (definitely great) but I think we'll all be dragging tomorrow morning. This week we will start doing coverboard searches for salamanders more regularly since we will have some more time once we finish habitat surveys on Tuesday. By the end of the day Tuesday we will have completed our 400 habitat plots! WOW! Best of all, I have a visitor coming this week! Scotty is coming to visit next weekend and we are going to Cumberland Gap National Historic Park to visit my friend Tom who is a field technician down there (working on black bear stuff). Very excited for a little side trip!
Some pics for your enjoyment (these were all taken by Fangyee, the student from Taiwan that visited us last week):
This is what happens to overworked grad students.
A very attractive shot of Lupita, Chris, and I doing a habitat survey.
Red-spotted newt, Notophthalmus viridescens
The infamous ticks that love us so much.
2 comments:
That tick was creepy looking up close. Leave it to you Aim, that the one day off you get you go to another National Park to spend the day outdoors.... you know you're dedicated when... ;)
i'm glad you got to have a relaxing weekend!! :)
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