I’ll be working on gathering this data for the Dakotas (bounding box: 49 N, 42 S, -96 E, -105 W), and then summarizing it to the level of sample blocks they created earlier in the project. I used NetcdfSubset but the request is too big for their on-line retrieval system. Instead, they suggested I use nccopy with […]

Today, I walked the Snively trail and came back along the spur of the Superior Hiking trail.

We had a meeting here today of some of the co-PI’s from other universities, so it was nice to finally meet some of the people who have been involved with the grant. Besides our WETLANDSCAPE group, I had never met anyone outside our institute on the grant before today. It helped me get a feel […]

I walked the Amity trail from Skyline Pkwy down to the creek, and back. Along the way I saw… blue-bead lily northern bluebells pale vetchling On  May 14, someone posted a pic of golden Corydalis in bloom along the trail. They said if you go in from the Vermilion Road access, it is on the right, not very […]

(Yes, the title is a shameless reference to my favorite current era singer! I haven’t decided yet whether or not this is going to become its own section of my blog.) I’m sure we’ve all had frustrating conversations at some point with hardened “climate deniers” (I’m not sure I like that term, though, as it […]

Today, someone spotted a gray comma at Hartley nature park. Maybe I’ll have to go there and check it out! I may have seen this species before, but I can’t remember, nor can I remember how to ID it. It will be a good excuse to go back and study commas.

I went to a Story Circles workshop and the author pontificated on how we’ve screwed up the climate change narrative, from “An Inconvenient Truth” onward. I can’t help but think he’s right, and it’s something I keep coming back to in my mind, so I figured I’d write a little about my experience with it. […]

Today, my naturalist boyfriend suggested we check out Stone Chimney Rd. It was amazing for butterflies! There were too many to focus on, and several lifers for me. So, the linked list is only those I could get close enough to identify. There’s no room for e.g. entering a record to genus. To add onto […]

If you’re interested in making the switch, there are several things you should know. I use the most popular flavor of Linux: Ubuntu (currently 16.04 Xenial Xerus) so my advice will be tailored to that distribution, though there will be some degree of generality among distributions. Interestingly, nowadays it seems all the popular OS have […]

May 20-23 Earth was within a CHHSS that disturbed the magnetosphere. On May 23 there was a weak CME but headed straight for us. It appears that the magnetosphere had been “cracked” enough for this to cause an amazing show! I spent the 1st 4 hours of the day gawking at the best aurora show […]