All packed and ready to go! Claire was a tremendous help getting everything together. After a bit of luggage wrestling we stuffed everything into three bags: And the feat I’m most proud of: 50 lbs right on the dot! Time to do a last bit of cleaning and organizing around the house. and … More All packed!
I can hardly believe how quickly time has flown by. I’m now three days away from departing for Greece for the summer! My lists are starting to get shorter, and soon I hope to start checking things off for good soon. Most of the logistical preparations are made though, so here’s a quick summary of … More Logistics!
I shouldn’t have built anticipation by waiting so long since posting about collecting data on lizards in the museums. I closed with a teaser that I’d soon post results of my data analysis. Well, here they are and unfortunately the short of it is, the data don’t look too great. Luckily, as I’ve an hour … More When in doubt, keep collecting data
The first step to figuring out if the physical appearance of these lizards do indeed change according to their ecological context was to visit natural history museums, looking for patterns in preserved specimens. After a bit of searching, I found that Yale, Harvard and the American Museum of Natural History in NYC all had preserved … More Jars full of lizards
I’ll give you the full spiel on my research plans in bits and pieces so as not to bore you. For now, the big picture: My research centers around the impacts of human land use on ecological systems. I’m focusing primarily on a Greek Wall Lizard, Podarcis erhardii, which lives in the Cyclades. I hypothesize … More The Plan
It’s that time again! The official countdown to Greece has begun. That means two things: I’m running around crazily trying to get everything ready, and this blog is finally going to get interesting again. I leave New Haven on the 28th of April and will be in Naxos on the 30th. Before that, I hope … More Countdown to Greece
The momentum behind opening access to scientific publications got a big boost this week with a directive from the White House for large, federally-funded agencies to make publications and data publicly available. The announcement was made in part in response to a “We the people” petition created last May that has since generated more than … More Open Access to Federally Funded Science
And here are a few more from Monterey!
I’m enjoying posting photos so here are a few more from the California trip. We trekked to the Monterey Bay Aquarium where I got some fun shots of sea life there. What do you think?
I’m going to keep putting up CA photos just for fun. Going through though the pictures I realized that I took a lot of photos in long bursts during the trip. When I strung them together you almost get a stop motion look at the trip. Enjoy!
Colin Donihue 