Butterfly Surveys in the Rockies
This August, my wife Emily and I stayed for three nights in Kananaskis Country, Alberta at the Biogeoscience Institute (BGI) run by the University of Calgary. While there we were able to go into the field with four different research teams. One group was studying the Rocky Mountain Apollo Butterfly (Parnassius smintheus) as part of a longterm collaborative project between the University of Cincinnati, University of Alberta, and Western University. As you might guess of a butterfly named after the Rocky Mountains and the Greek god of the sun, they live on alpine meadows at the tops of mountains.
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Leading my first photo workshop
At our core, conservation photographers are environmental educators. And maybe it is the educator in me, but lately I've been getting excited about the idea of empowering others to use their photography for conservation purposes. I recently ran my first conservation photography workshop and really loved it...
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Up a Tree
The best way to see eye to eye with a Red-cockaded Woodpecker (RCW) biologist is up in a tree…
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Artist in the Oaks
Exploring nature with an artist is like seeing the world with new eyes. Last week I brought Conservation Artist Mollie Doctrow to one of Archbold’s oak hammocks…
This post links to an article I wrote for “The Scrub Blog.”
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Jay Watcher on Sentinel Lands
On April 29, 2018 I had the chance to photograph wildlife biologist Natasha Lehr. Natasha monitors Florida Scrub-Jays for the Department of Defense at the Avon Park Air Force Range…
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Gopher Gardens
Jenni Fuller monitors tortoises in restored sandhill habitat at Archbold Boilogical Station as part of her research internship. For her independent project she is studying the effects Gopher Tortoises have on the vegetation around their burrows and what happens to these gopher gardens after a burrow is abandoned…
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Dissecting "Spiders in the Sand"
Back in March 2017, Dr. Jim Carrel took me out with him into the Florida scrub to demonstrate how he monitors two species of scrub burrowing wolf spiders, a research project he has been running for over thirty years. This photo was one of my favorites right away. Sometimes an image just "pops" for me, but it only happens when a number of elements line up in a harmonious way…
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