Pikas on Ice
Adorable and fuzzy, American pikas (Ochotona princeps) have become the spokes-critter for the consequences of climate change in alpine areas. These little fuzzballs, more closely [...]
Meet the 2014 Students Discover Fellows
As readers of our blog and Twitter feed well know, we've spent the last three weeks working side-by-side with 12 North Carolina middle school teachers [...]
The Secret Life of Harley Cat
Have you checked out the growing gallery of cat tracks associated with the Cat Tracker project? Harley is just one of 76 kitties enrolled in [...]
The Common Yet Relatively Unknown Bacteria in Your Belly Button
Two weeks ago, we (finally) returned data to participants in the Belly Button Biodiversity project and unveiled some slick, new data visualizations to help participants [...]
Meet the Worker Bees: Liza the Urban Buzz Intern
Summer is nearly here which means the field season is now in full swing! Last week Lauren began a new photo series on the blog [...]
Send Us Your Dead Cicadas!
Periodical cicadas are emerging in several locations throughout the South and Midwest this summer: Louisiana, Mississippi Ohio, Kentucky Iowa, Illinois AND WE NEED YOUR HELP! [...]
Swimming in Feces
Some food, er feces, for thought. Above is another thought-provoking figure from the students in Rob’s Community Ecology of Humans class. Data analysis by Ryann [...]
That Wonderful Time of the Year (for Cicada Citizen Science)
For the last few weeks, I’ve been eagerly scanning my Twitter feed for updates about the emergence of this year’s broods of periodical cicadas (Magicicada [...]
The Birth of a Zombie Wasp
Graduate student Emily Meineke had one of those ‘OH S&^%!’ moments while in the lab the other day. Best part is she caught it on [...]
Who Ate My Cake?
Today we have a special treat: Another delicious watercolor sketch from biologist and illustrator, Dr. Jennifer Landin. You may recall Jennifer’s action sketch of the [...]
Time to Explore the Umbilicus: New Belly Button Biodiversity Website
It’s been many moons since 500 or so intrepid citizen scientists twirled a Q-tip in their belly buttons for science. With that swab we did [...]
CSI: New York, Lead
Sometimes we discover things that we don't yet understand. We like to share those findings with you, even before we make sense of them. Here [...]
Neighborhood (Nest) Watch
This latest installment of Nature in Your Backyard comes courtesy of my friend and colleague, Colleen Brannen. Last Wednesday evening, while strolling home from the [...]
Your Wild Life Heads to Washington!
This weekend (April 25-27, 2014), hundreds of thousands of students and science enthusiasts will swarm the Walter E. Washington Convention Center in the Nation’s Capital [...]
The Future of Discovery
In March 2014, Rob spoke at TEDxSantaCruz, explaining how much we don’t know about the species living on us, in us and around us – [...]