Presentation on Little Duck Island

Sorry for my lack of posts this summer. It has been really busy and a lot of work in the Sierra Nevadas.

Here is a video of a short presentation I gave at the end of term regarding my Little Duck Island project.

Plant Identification

Hypericum spp. (Photo: Matt Dickinson)

       I have been trying to focus on finishing the identification of the pressed plant collection from Little Duck Island. Jordan Chalfant (another student) and Matthew Dickinson have been a tremendous help with this. I have also sent out some of the more difficult specimens to local botanists such as Glen Mittelhauser, Jill Weber, Sal Rooney, and Arthur Haines. Glen, Jill, and Sal are some of the co-authors on a recent book: The Plants of Acadia National Park.

Arthur Haines is co-author on The Flora of Maine, and the author of the soon to be printed Flora Novae Angliae (Flora of New England). I am indebted to these botanists' wonderful generosity and help with identifying the LDI plants.

 

Streptopus lanceolatus from LDI (Photo: Matt Dickinson)

Monotropa uniflora from LDI (Photo: Matt Dickinson)

Little Duck Island, Goldenrods, and more

Check the Little Duck Island tab above. I'll be updating it shortly with more.
Also, I am working on another webpage for making a vegetative key to Goldenrods. Check the tab above for a link to that site. That should be up in the next few weeks.

I will be back soon.

Back to school

I'm back to school now, ready to begin term. I'm taking a class on plant communities that I am very psyched about. It should be a good opportunity to continue expanding on botany and ecology by directly applying the two. I look forward to trying to apply this class to the island work I've been doing.