Diario del proyecto Biota of Marrowstone Island

Archivos de Diario para junio 2018

miércoles, 13 de junio de 2018

The Big Six Oh Oh!

Last month (May) was amazing with 253 observations by just five observers. Our project began on March 6th of 2017. Since then, 1360 observations have been submitted by 22 project members. Our most active month in terms of participants thus far was January of this year, with twelve observers submitting to the project. This morning we got our 600th species!

I have enjoyed seeing each and every observation submitted to this project. The quality of the documentation has greatly improved as we seek out harder to identify species. A shout out to Giselle for her mention of a microscope app for her iPad. I found a nice one for Android, which has made on-the-fly higher resolution macro shots possible using my smart phone.

If anyone would like to join me for a mini blitz, let me know. I'm game to drop what I'm doing in favor of grabbing my camera and notepad. Perhaps one of these days we could do a bioblitz of some unique habitat. Limiting one's search area seems to only increase one's number of observations. Funny how that works.

Again, thanks to all for your contributions.
Kurt

Publicado el miércoles, 13 de junio de 2018 a las 06:59 PM por kurtsteinbach kurtsteinbach | 0 comentarios | Deja un comentario

viernes, 15 de junio de 2018

Lowest tide of the year: minus 3.3 foot

Tomorrow, the ides of June, offers a chance to do some serious tide pool blitzing. If you want to join me, I'll start at 11am at the submerged rock jetty and eel grass beds offshore from the Fort Flagler Sewage Lagoon. This is where there used to be a long pier, once called the fishing pier, but originally it was a service pier for military. Nice mix of habitat in an area that is current swept - so rich with life.

Publicado el viernes, 15 de junio de 2018 a las 05:37 AM por kurtsteinbach kurtsteinbach | 0 comentarios | Deja un comentario