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.