Long overdue late Summer and non-field Fall semester update
Well, I had some WordPress issues and I lost all my previous blog posts. Luckily, I had a cached version and I re-posted all of them and I will keep a better record of my posts in case this happens in the future.
First a quick update of all the boring stuff from the last few months. The fall semester was spent primarily applying for grants. In total I submitted around $60,000 worth of grant applications. I have already received $750 worth of funding from the Ohio GSS (I also received rejections from two other applications), but overall I am confident I will at minimum have enough money to comfortably be in the field May-August in 2013. I also advanced to candidacy which means I can mostly focus on research for the remainder of my time at Ohio University. Finally, I recently updated my website with some new content and changed the style around a bit. The most important update was the addition of a new photo page which will display photo from all of my travels and field seasons.
The past few months included a few entertaining research activities including a trip to Vancouver, BC for the 7th World Congress of Herpetology and a quick 5 day trip down to my field sites to collect data loggers.
The World Congress of Herpetology was a great experience. I flew into Berkeley, CA and drove up to Vancouver, BC with the Museum of Vertebrate Zoology crew. I obviously enjoy conferences for the exposure to cutting edge research, but it is also great to catch up with friends that are scattered all over the world. Because I am so late on this update I will just include some photos I took at the World Congress including an awesome tailed frog (Ascaphus truei) we found before we drove back to California.
I will post about my fall field work in the next couple days. The adventure includes bears, elk, and damaged expensive equipment! So much fun!