{"id":1040,"date":"2015-03-11T13:12:40","date_gmt":"2015-03-11T17:12:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/envs\/?p=1040"},"modified":"2015-03-17T13:01:10","modified_gmt":"2015-03-17T17:01:10","slug":"a-busy-spring","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/envs\/2015\/03\/11\/a-busy-spring\/","title":{"rendered":"A busy spring …"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Fossilized<\/a>

Fossilized remains of one of the earliest (THE earliest ?) feathered dinosaurs. Shreds of Joan’s field pants clearly visible around bones from the left leg.
Image source: http:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/wiki\/File:Archaeopteryx_bavarica_Detail.jpg<\/p><\/div>\n

… just because you haven’t heard much from us recently does not mean we haven’t been busy for the last months. The two biggest news first: Joan Morrison will enter phased retirement soon (technically she is already in phased retirement, but I try to ignore that as much as possible) and Christoph Geiss was promoted to petrified wood (aka full professor). We have since requested to hire a new conservation biologist and hope to hire a new colleague next year.<\/p>\n

\"Evolution<\/a>

Evolution of tenure track faculty. Left: green wood, center: dead wood, right: petrified wood. Christoph has now proudly reached the petrified wood stage.<\/p><\/div>\n

Our students are busy on several research projects. Christoph Geiss’ students are analyzing sediments from Otsego Lake in upstate New York and a salt marsh at Hammonasset State Park. The salt marsh sediments are probably the smelliest sediments ever cored, and they are stinking up the cold room as we speak. A GPR survey conducted this February yielded – absolute nothing. The salty pore fluids, combined with highly conductive clays ate the radar signal withing a few inches of the surface. Good day to work on our tan, though!<\/p>\n

\"March<\/a>

March 2015 – Ground Penetrating Radar (GPR) survey at a Hammonasset State Park Salt Marsh<\/p><\/div>\n

Cameron Douglass’ students are busy analyzing soils and invasive plants at a conservation area near Mystic, and we will erect a few interpretative signs at that introduce visitors to the various ecosystems encountered at the site.<\/p>\n

\"March<\/a>

Drawing of a song sparrow to be featured at one of our interpretative signs. Drawing by Eunice Kim<\/p><\/div>\n

Jon Gorley’s students are still crunching the soils data numbers from their sites in the White Mountains.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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