One World, Two Feet – Long Term Ecological Research Sites

First published by the Duke Nicholas School. Many of my childhood memories are centered around the Hubbard Brook Experimental Forest, a Long Term Ecological Research (LTER) site in the White Mountains of New Hampshire. My mom has worked there for as long as I can remember, and during their summer meetings I would often tag…

10000 Birds – Keeping Track of My Birds… for an Entire Year

In November of 2015,  I saw a Northern Mockingbird 20 out of the 30 days. A Brown-headed Nuthatch? 3 of the 30 days. European Starling? 8 days. If you’re a rational person, you’re asking yourself two questions: How does she know that? Why does she care?   Because I like symmetry, I’ll give you two…