NSF Project Team Meeting - East Lansing, Nov 2011

We have a fan of our work, over in North Carolina!

Fieldwork on the wrong side of 100 degrees F

http://vimeo.com/26901609

It's baby season at SRS!

We have been seeing more and more herp babies and also catching some animals in ways not expected. Note the fence lizard in the sherman. We had a broadhead in a sherman as well!

Mattamuskeet National Wildlife Refuge (MNWR), North Carolina

Hi there!

 

The mosquitoes are what you might call fierce. We go in fully armored and still barely come out alive.

The bear seem to enjoy helping us rearrange our arrays. They took down several burlaps and chewed up a few coverboards.

Burlap ransacking culprit!

Arenas, in the humid woods of TN

We have installed our arenas for future host preference experiments. Perhaps the most memorable part of the process was bringing the IACUC review committee out into the mosquito-infested poison ivy to check them, on an afternoon when the heat index was hovering around 105F...

More ticks on skinks (in the TN lab this time)

Here are some more photos of tick on skinks - these guys are participating in Rick and Cathy's Blood Meal Analysis (BMA)validation trials. Hopefully the Reverse Line Blot will show these ticks did indeed feed on lizards and not, say, wombats!

Tick Crew in the news!!!!

http://www.mccoy.army.mil/ReadingRoom/Newspaper/RealMcCoy/current/Lyme.htm

Fort McCoy-Someone loves the stinky stuff :)

Array 1 on our Alabama grid

Hello from SRS! The season started out with a BANG! but since then capture rates have dropped considerably. It has been over 100F plus high humidity for the past week or so and after very dry weather, we have been getting thunderstorms every night. Here are some photos from our past few sessions. 2 Racerunners

Woodland vole

 Anole that was hiding out under the burlap.

Fort McCoy Herps!!!!

Check it out!!!!! That's a nymph on a smooth green snake. We caught these guys on a rainy morning.

Fort McCoy June Trapping

Greetings from Ft. McCoy!!! We had an exciting and wet Trap Phase 13!!!
Check out the cool lean to that Marty built for processing. Props to Lydia sticking it out for the 24hour tick garden observations.

Oakmulgee Talladega National Forest fieldwork, June

Holy Voley!!!!

Ft.McCoy April 2011

A few more friends from Ft. McCoy: Fisher, Deer, Turkey posing for the Camera, Coyote at the Valley