Jabberwocky Ecology

The Portal Weather Station

Originally posted on The Portal Project:
For the history of the project, weather monitoring has always accompanied the collection of rodent, plant, and ant data. At first, this was done manually. Portalites from 1980 to 1989 measured rain…

A Vegetation History

Originally posted on The Portal Project:
My Portal story begins in 1991 when Jim Brown offered me the opportunity to be the Portal postdoc. Among other things, this meant I organized the yearly ant census in which we…

Portal: Then and Now

Originally posted on The Portal Project:
A lot can change in 40 years.  This is perhaps never more apparent than when you find a box of old photographs, and start comparing then to now.  When the Weecology lab…

2017 Summer Plant Census

Originally posted on The Portal Project:
Twice a year the Portal crew gets a little larger, and spends a few extra days, and we count plants on all 384 quadrats. Despite some of us being in our second…