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A grid is used to survey habitat characteristics
If a Lizzie can pass, shouldn't a fish pass too?
Field technician assessing bottom substrate and habitat cover in grid
First habitat survey complete, on to the next!
Weir at Cameron Run in Alexandria, VA
DIY view buckets for habitat surveys
Assessing bottom substrate and habitat cover in grid below the weir at Cameron Run in Alexandria, VA
Observing a group of Black Vultures at Nature School
Nature School at the Clifton Institute
Scat! Possibly coyote? Observed on a monthly YHikes! (Youth Hike) program.
Do you love your job? I do and you should too.
Nature School at the Clifton Institute
Testing our human-made dams against a precipitation event!
Young Scientist documenting habitat surrounding mushroom observation
Jumping spider observed snacking at the Clifton Institute
Island Nights
Mystery Spider
Mystery Butterfly
Mystery Butterfly
Caribbean Brown Pelican
Sea Pearls (Ventricaria ventricosa)
Can you find the flounder?
Yellow Stingray
Reef Surveys
Invasive Lionfish (Pterois volitans)
Assessing Epiphyte Communities
Epiphyte Community on Dock Piling
Mystery Fish
Canoe Manatee Surveys
Hawksbill Sea Turtle
Mangrove Upsidedown Jellyfish
Snorkel Selfie
Invasive Lionfish (Pterois volitans)
Surveying Seagrass Habitat
American Crocodile
Extracting eDNA in the lab
qPCR Plate prepared for 20 samples
Did you know bridges are fish passages?
DNA Extractions
Captured Northern Snakehead
eDNA filtration
eDNA filtration
eDNA filtration
Perks of being ESP graduate students
ESP GSA Holiday Party
MWEE
EVPP 301 Occoquan Field Trip
EVPP 301 Occoquan Field Trip
More than just fish here
Fish Passage Assessment
Fish Passage
Fish Passage Assessment
Fish Passage
Fish Passage
Fish Passage
Fish Passage
Environmental DNA (eDNA) samples
Second eDNA sampling day
First eDNA sampling day
First eDNA sampling day
First eDNA sampling day
First eDNA sampling day
Common fish species
SERC wetland platform
Crab pots on the dock at SERC
Crab pot on the dock at SERC
Intestinal Parasites
Stomach Content Items
Stomach Content Item
Stomach Content Items
Stomach Content Item
Stomach Content Item
Stomach Content Item
Stomach Content Item
Stomach Content Item
Stomach Content Items
Stomach Content Item
Stomach Content Item
Stomach Content Item
Stomach and Intestinal Track
Eastern Mosquitofish Brood
Sunset Moth (Chrysiridia rhipheus)
Invasive Stinkbug Art
Living the Life as an Ecologist
Transferring Fish from Net to Bucket
Efficiency is Critical
Discussing Strategy
Data Management
Assessing Fish Communities
Setting Fyke Nets
Water Quality Field Day
Chemistry Team
Mummichog
A Happy Team, is a Healthy Team
Juvenile bald eagle
Surprise Catch
Eastern elliptic mussel
Black Crappie
Fish Identification and Measuring
Northern water snake
Seine Net Collection
A Real Team Effort
Fyke Net Setting
Fyke Net Setting
Summer Team at Sharing Water Event
Ocean City Inlet, MD - Jetty
Male fiddler crab
Sand tiger shark
Retrogradation and piping plovers
Atlantic horseshoe crabs
Juvenile horseshoe crab
Atlantic horseshoe crab
Crossing Wachapreague Inlet, VA
Coastal17 Group Photo
Atlantic horseshoe crab
Ghost crab
Cetacean
Retrogradation on Parramore Is., VA
Boneyard on Parramore Island, VA
Cat Eye Pond
Juvenile wood turtle
Juvenile wood turtle
Juvenile wood turtle
We have a trouper!
View of wood turtle survey site
Leeches and Wood Turtles
Leeches and Wood Turtles
Leeches and Wood Turtles
Keeping warm during kayak survey
Slugs Mating?
American black bear
American black bear
American black bear
American black bear
American black bear
American black bear
American black bear
Eastern gray squirrel
Raccoon (Procyon lotor)
Raccoon (Procyon lotor)
Hairy Woodpecker
Mouse Species (Peromyscus sp.)
White-tailed deer
Bobcat (Lynx rufus)
Bobcat (Lynx rufus)
On our way to find wood turtles!
We were told there was a supermoon
WARNING - Museum Skin Prep
Museum Preparation Featuring Insects
NMNH - Bird Collection
Bird Eggs or Stream Pebbles?
Eggs & Nests (NMNH Bird Collection)
Narwhal (Monodon monoceros) tusks
Blue whale (Balaenoptera musculus)
Sporting safety
Wood Turtles with Tom Akre
Beaver (Castor canadensis) tail!
Northern slimy salamander
Larval salamanders
Northern two-lined salamander
Spencer Gee examines Gailan crops
Harlequin bug eats collard greens
Joe Pye likes to check in
Example of black rot damage
Bed of collard greens
Black rot infected collard greens
Row of collards greens
Evidence of animal damage.
Measuring Brassica plot length
Main Brassica plot at Sunnyside
Proof I found my camera trap
View of Bear Pond
Black-and-white warbler
Gray catbird
Gray catbird takes flight
Bird captured in mist net
Citizen scientist assesses songbird
Tags used to separate bird bags
Birding in power line underpass
Fine tuning my radio telemetry skill
Wood Turtle Practicum Day 1
Tracking Assignment
Looking for wood turtles
First practicum day!
Virginia Working Landscapes Plots
Quadrat sampling in wildflower plots
100 meter transect
Searching for traces of EAB
Juvenile black snake
Juvenile black snake
Move-in Day!
Eastern hercules beetle
Assessing Fish Community
Driving boat for the first time!
Collections Management Intern
Morefield Gem Mine - Amelia, VA
Morefield Gem Mine - Amelia, VA
Morefield Gem Mine - Amelia, VA
Exploring the underground mine!
Morefield Gem Mine - Amelia, VA
Geology Club trip!
Do what you love, love what you do
Never a boring day
Beverly Bachman assesses catch
Hoop net collection
Measuring standard length of catfish
Catfish caught in hoop net
White Perch
Field technician measures fish
Macro invertebrates
Sorting fish larvae and macros
Tracks
Largemouth Bass

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