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This is giving me Year Zero vibes.

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Field Studies Magnetic Paint Tin from TheCreepingMoon

A handy little tin palette to store your watercolor paints! Perfect travel sized case for on the go art-ing - field studies, urban sketching, plein air, whatever! Fits in your pocket, messenger bag or pochade.

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The Molecular Lab at Powdermill

The Molecular Lab at Powdermill is a great resource because it allows us to analyze samples in-house from field studies being conducted on the reserve. 

Currently, we are extracting and amplifying insect DNA from Chimney Swift feces in order to determine the dietary composition of these declining aerial insectivores. We are also screening swabs taken from amphibians and reptiles surveyed across the reserve for the presence of pathogens such as chytrid fungus, which is decimating amphibian populations across the globe. 

Another ongoing lab effort involves devising a protocol for the detection of gill lice DNA from trout stream water samples. Gill lice are parasites that attach themselves to the gills of trout. This protocol would allow us to detect the presence of the parasite from a sample of water alone, without having to catch and examine the trout directly.

Andrea Kautz is a Research Entomologist at Carnegie Museum of Natural History’s Powdermill Nature Reserve. Museum employees are encouraged to blog about their unique experiences and knowledge gained from working at the museum.

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my four corners adventure

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An old roommate and I took a little painting field trip and I stumbled upon the most perfect subject(s). My field study doesn’t do it justice, so I’ll likely make a larger, more detailed version of this painting sometime soon. Mushies!

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Phantasms of the Floating World: Tales of Ghostly Japan

Phantasms of the Floating World: Tales of Ghostly Japan

‘Frolic in Brine: Goblins Be Thine.’

The 1964 movie Kwaidan (Ghost Stories), directed by Masaki Kobayashi, as well as being a beautiful and atmospheric piece of cinema, is curious in the sense that it is a Japanese movie based on an English book of short stories translating Japanese folk tales. The translator of these tales was Lafcadio Hearn, a man of travel and words.

Born of Irish and Greek…

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Coming home from geology field studies be like....