Karnolab

  • As Amy just posted, she arrived in Glasgow on Saturday, and we’ve had quite a fun time introducing her to the sights, sounds, and folks out here! There’s some great people, and we really appreciate all of their kindness and…

  • Amy here. just arrived in montana two days ago. on the night I arrived, all of the other vaguely college age people in our trailer park were having a white trash party, which charlotte told me on the way in…

  • So, last night ended our four-night run of rhino netting.  Now, we have six nights off, and then the whole process starts again.  As I mentioned before, we rotate jobs when netting rhinos, and the available jobs are fish person,…

  • Phew!  The last 24 hours have been so busy!  (You may be noticing a theme…we’re always busy out here.) Rhino netting last night took a little bit longer than the night before.  We were out until around 10:30 netting rhinos,…

  • Xantus’s murrelets do not make nests of their own. Instead, they seek out the darkest, most protected areas they can find to lay their eggs. On Anacapa Island, this usually means they nest among the cracks and crags in one…

  • So, as you might have guessed by the title of this entry, I just had a twenty-hour workday.  More about that in a moment.  The last two days have been foggy and a little cold.  Things were damp and overcast,…

  • So, it’s been a few days since I last posted.  This is partly because our internet connection was fairly sketchy during all of the really high winds, and partly because the last couple of days have been so busy I…

  • Last Friday, Lauren, Marisa, Matt, and I all went out to do some maintenance work on our MAPS station. We straightened, and in some cases, re-staked net poles, and Matt bravely used the cantankerous weed whacker to clear out vegetation…

  • Well, even though it might start sounding repetitive, it is REALLY windy here.  Gusts of 40 knots today literally knocked me off my feet.  Sitting in the Corm blind this morning doing my daily murre attendance was pretty frightening, with…

  • These past three days, I’ve been accompanying Lauren Smith and Marisa Lipsey, two interns at the BLM, on various surveys. Matt Tribby has been our field advisor, and the man knows how to drive off-road! Marisa, Lauren, and Matt have…