LOUISIANA FIELD WORK (2011-2012)

Team Awesome: L-R, Evangeline (Anji) Ballerini, Jenna Hamlin (graduate student, UGA), Jide Aderinwale (undergrad, UGA), Josh Foley (undergrad, UGA), Dr. Amanda (Mandy) Brothers (fellow post doc)

J3: Jide, Josh, and Jenna

Prime Time: Mandy and Anji

Our herpetological friends (and one foe)

FIELD WORK IN THE SIERRA NEVADA (2013)

Lundy Canyon

Top: Daniel Lehnert (undergrad, UCSB) records data in Lundy Canyon

Middle, clockwise: Soda stops to smell the columbines, A. pubescens-ish flower, various hybrids, A. formosa with swallowtail

Bottom: hybrid habitat in Lundy Canyon talus

Rock Creek hybrid zone

Above: Michael Byars (undergrad, Deep Springs College) and Anji record data among the columbines, Aconitum, and Epilobium (we’re probably standing on Mimulus - hee hee...)

Right: Anji using a protractor

Below: Anji, Michael, and Amity Wilczek (faculty, Deep Springs College) posing after a good day’s work. Pie awaits (properly stored in bear boxes, of course) back at the trailhead!

Above: rare blue-ish hybrid next to a fairly common pink-ish hybrid


Left: Amity shows the columbines some love at Saddlebag Lake


Below: Amity demonstrating Saddle Bag Lake hybrid habitat