Bird vs. Fish

Altona WMA

I surveyed here this morning!

Pheasant Terrace WMA

My quick-drying Sahara pants from REI are admittedly better in the tall, dewy grass than my yoga pants.

shallows sweetflag (Acorus) sun bur-reed (in Dane Co., WI) narrow-leaved small branched wet grass-pink showy lady’s-slipper shining lady’s-tresses dry twayblade green orchids orchid Hooker’s large round-leaved blunt-leaved bog purple-fringed ragged-fringed prairie white-fringed northern water-plantain sticky false asphodel white colic-root wood lily milkwort pink racemed Allegheny-vine long-leaved bluets bedstraw pretty Labrador marsh northern southern 3-lobed branching […]

Pipestone National Monument

I took a walk on the circle trail to clear my head this evening.

Winter WMA

I started bird surveys this week, and this was my 1st site! Oddly, it’s hard to find a map of this area anywhere online, which makes me wonder if it’s the tract that’s been most recently added? I have surveyed an area off 211th street that’s marked with WMA signs. There was on-and-off rain earlier […]

How do I Classify This?

I’m going to have an output raster brick, and I have to classify it into 2 classes based on thresholds for multiple criteria. https://pro.arcgis.com/en/pro-app/help/mapping/layer-properties/data-classification-methods.htm

Super-computing

So apparently… “…Bootstrapping and Markov Chain Monte Carlo, can be [sped] up significantly by using several connected computers in parallel.” – snow simplified Looks like I missed the boat on model fitting. Currently, I’m trying to use a MPI cluster implemented via snow (technically, clusterR). Here’s my latest error: Child job 2 terminated normally, but […]

Afton State Park

Today I had training for the impending field season.

#NameThatBirdSong

The bird of the week is Henslow’s sparrow!

#NameThatBirdSong Reboot

I revived my Twitter game this spring, and the bird of the week is lark sparrow! Since I’ve been gone (from the #scicommgames scene) here are the the birds we’ve played… hairy woodpecker European goldfinch northern saw-whet owl eastern meadowlark brown-headed cowbird