Tuesday, March 24, 2009

New Mexico NMBIS and Hendrix Talk

I'm back from New Mexico and I gave a talk about my alligator research to the Hendrix Biology Club last night, so I think it's time for an update.

Santa Fe was really cool. It's a very artsy little place like Eureka Springs, but the buildings are all in the southwest style so the whole theme works to draw you in. My poster didn't win the award, but they paid for us to go there so we didn't expect to be considered.

This is our hotel. It was very nice and ultra stylized, like the rest of Santa Fe. It's called the Inn at Loretto and it's right in the middle of the downtown area. My room had a giant window that opened onto someone else's roof, so I kept going out there at night to look around.


We visited some cliff dwellings where the place allows people to climb ladders into some of the homes. It was my favorite part of the whole trip, and I think I would go back just to do it again. This is a picture of Dr. Swanson, Ben, and Madeline inside one of the smaller cliff dwellings.




This is me "Vanna Whiting" my new alligator poster at the symposium. I think it's funny that my jacket looks like a lab coat.

Stay tuned for more updates! I'm hunting the Ivory-billed Woodpecker tomorrow if weather permits.




Friday, March 6, 2009

Upcoming Stuff

Here's what I'll be up to in the next few months:

INBRE Symposium in Santa Fe and AAS Symposium in Clarksville, both to my present poster about alligator research I've been working on.

Hunt for the Ivory-Billed Woodpecker in Southeast Arkansas the first day of spring break.

College of Natural Science and Mathematics Poster Symposium at UCA and talk at Hendrix about the alligator research in April.

Memphis in May (just Sunday, ... if I'm feeling rich.)

Super-Adventure Tour of the West coast the middle two weeks of May. Beach camping near San Diego, invade Carmen's house in San Francisco, camp in the Redwoods, hang out in Portland, camp at Mt. Rainier, and wander Seattle before heading home.

Summer School June and July
Cell Biology and Physics II (frowny face)

Graduate again in August!

Get a real job!
"Science is a wonderful thing if one does not have to earn one's living at it." ~Albert Einstein

I'll be posting about these individually when the time comes. I'm rarely short on activities, that's for sure.