I moved to Maryland in February for my first job after finishing graduate school in Alabama. It was already a big change before COVID shut everything down. In mid-August, I was up late scrolling on Facebook when I saw a post about the NHSM fossil raffle. I started looking into the NHSM page where I […]
Month: October 2020
NHSM Photo Safari Scavenger Hunt Stories
Fall Berries: Autumn Olive
Here we are again with another wild edibles blog post! Berries seem to emerge as the theme beyond the summertime. Though I considered writing about Stinkhorn Mushrooms in the spirit of Halloween and changing it up, Autumn Olives are calling out. Autumn Olives look like bountiful, bunches of small red grapes that hang heavy on […]
Aquatic Ecology II: What Lies Beneath–Water Worlds
Introduction In the previous blog, Waterscapes and Where Rivers are Born, we took a peek at the hyporheic zone and saw how this ecosystem lives between the stream’s benthos (bottom) and groundwater. Here we take a closer look at these two worlds as well as a wider view to check out the ecology of groundwater […]